Village Life in China
Author | : Arthur H. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Arthur H. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gonçalo Santos |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2021-08-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0295747390 |
China has undergone a remarkable process of urbanization, but a significant portion of its citizens still live in rural villages. To gain better access to jobs, health care, and consumer goods, villagers often travel or migrate to cities, and that cyclical transit and engagement with new technoscientific and medical practices is transforming village life. In this thoughtful ethnography, Gonçalo Santos paints a richly detailed portrait of one rural township in Guangdong Province, north of the industrialized Pearl River Delta region. Unlike previous studies of rural-urban relations and migration in China, Chinese Village Life Today—based on Santos’s more than twenty years of field research—starts from a rural community’s point of view rather than the perspective of major urban centers. Santos considers the intimate choices of village families in the face of larger forces of modernization, showing how these negotiations shape the configuration of daily village life, from marriage, childbirth, and childcare to personal hygiene and public sanitation. Santos also outlines the advantages of a rural existence, including a degree of autonomy over family planning and community life that is rare in urban China. Filled with vivid anecdotes and keen observations, this book presents a fresh perspective on China’s urban-rural divide and a grounded theoretical approach to rural transformation.
Author | : Mobo C. F. Gao |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824821234 |
This book is about Gao Village, in Jiangxi province, where the author was born and brought up, leaving when he was twenty-one to study English at Xiamen University. Since emigrating to Australia in 1990, he has returned every year to Gao Village, where his brother still lives. Several accounts of village life in China have been published, but all have been by Western or urban Chinese scholars. Mobo Gao's account is in every sense one from the inside. Though written as an academic work, it does not eschew personal stories and experiences relevant to the themes addressed. These cover a forty-year period and fall into four distinct themes; the village before and after land reform; the commune system; the dismantling of the communes; and the unfolding impact of the market economy, including increased migration to urban areas, from the late 1980s onwards.
Author | : Arthur H. Smith |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2019-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1528786173 |
“Village Life in China - A Study in Sociology” is one of the author's fascinating written accounts of his experiences living and travelling China during the late 19th century, this particular volume focusing on the subject of rural life in the country. He wrote this book while living among the local population in small agricultural villages, noting down his observations and compiling them into this insightful glimpse of 19th-century rural China. Arthur Henderson Smith (1845 – 1932) was a missionary famous for spending 54 years doing missionary work in China. He wrote many books about his time there, presenting China to many foreign readers for the first time. Other notable works by this author include: “Chinese Characteristics”, and “The Uplift of China”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
Author | : Michael Meyer |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620402866 |
Explores the change most of rural China is undergoing via the story of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed apartments for farmers in exchange for their land rights.
Author | : William L. Parish |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1980-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226645919 |
After 1949 the Chinese Communists carried out land reform, the collectivization of agriculture, and the formation of people's communes. The new economic and political organizations that emerged have made peasant life more comfortable and secure, but many economic and status differentials and traditional customs remain resistant to change. Focusing on rural Kwangtung province, William L. Parish and Martin King Whyte examine the rural work-incentive system, village equality and inequality, rural health care and education, marriage customs, and the position of women, among other topics, to determine what and how much of the traditional Chinese ways of life is left in Communist China.
Author | : James L. Watson |
Publisher | : Chinese University of Hong Kong Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book is a collection of revised articles based on the authors'fieldwork on two villages in Yuen Long, a rural district of Hong Kong. It presents the authors'observations and their interpretation of life in a southern Chinese village under the process of urbanization.
Author | : Lin Juren |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1538112361 |
This compelling book analyzes the dramatic changes in rural Chinese society as a result of rapid urbanization. Building on eight decades of studies of the village of Lengshuigou, Chinese sociologists examine the fundamental changes over the last century that have radically transformed centuries-old systems of patriarchy and generational order.
Author | : Huaiyin Li |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2009-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804771073 |
Village China Under Socialism and Reform offers a comprehensive account of rural life after the communist revolution, detailing villager involvement in political campaigns since the 1950s, agricultural production under the collective system, family farming and non-agricultural economy in the reform, and everyday life in the family and community. Li's rich examination draws on original documents from local agricultural collectives, newly accessible government archives, and his own fieldwork in Qin village of Jiangsu province to highlight the continuities in rural transformation. Firmly disagreeing with those who claim that recent developments in rural China represent a radical break with pre-reform sociopolitical practices and patterns of production, Li instead draws a clear history connecting the current situation to ecological, social, and institutional changes that have persisted from the collective era.
Author | : Dongping Han |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2008-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1583671803 |
Originally published: New York: Garland Pub., 2000.