Chinese Village Life Today

Author : Gonçalo Santos
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295747392

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Chinese Village Life Today by Gonçalo Santos Pdf

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 : Arthur H. Smith
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781528786171

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Village Life in China - A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith Pdf

“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 : Liang Hong
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781839761775

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China in One Village by Liang Hong Pdf

A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Henan Province. What she found was an extended family riven by the seismic changes in Chinese society and a village turned inside out by emigration, neglect, and environmental despoliation. Combining family memoir, literary observation, and social commentary, Liang’s by turns lyrically poetic and movingly raw investigation into the fate of her village became a bestselling book in China and brought her fame. For many months, Liang walked the roads and fields of her village, recording the stories of her relatives—especially her irascible, unforgettable father—and talking to everyone from high government officials to the lowest of village outcasts. Across China, many saw in Liang’s riveting interviews with family members and childhood acquaintances a mirror of their own lives, and her observations about the way the greatest rural-to-urban migration of modern times has twisted the country resonated deeply. China in One Village tells the story of contemporary China through one clear-eyed, literary observer, one family, and one village.

Author : Mobo C. F. Gao
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824821238

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Gao Village by Mobo C. F. Gao Pdf

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 : Nick R. Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452965444

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The End of the Village by Nick R. Smith Pdf

How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. Centered on the mountainous region of Chongqing, which serves as an experimental site for the country’s new urban development policies, The End of the Village analyzes the radical expansion of urbanization and its consequences for China’s villagers. It reveals a fundamental rewriting of the nation’s social contract, as villages that once organized rural life and guaranteed rural livelihoods are replaced by an increasingly urbanized landscape dominated by state institutions. Throughout this comprehensive study of China’s “urban–rural coordination” policy, Nick R. Smith traces the diminishing autonomy of the country’s rural populations and their subordination to larger urban networks and shared administrative structures. Outside Chongqing’s urban centers, competing forces are at work in reshaping the social, political, and spatial organization of its villages. While municipal planners and policy makers seek to extend state power structures beyond the boundaries of the city, village leaders and inhabitants try to maintain control over their communities’ uncertain futures through strategies such as collectivization, shareholding, real estate development, and migration. As China seeks to rectify the development crises of previous decades through rapid urban growth, such drastic transformations threaten to displace existing ways of life for more than 600 million residents. Offering an unprecedented look at the country’s contentious shift in urban planning and policy, The End of the Village exposes the precarious future of rural life in China and suggests a critical reappraisal of how we think about urbanization.

Author : Lin Juren,Xie Yuxi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538112366

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A Century of Change in a Chinese Village by Lin Juren,Xie Yuxi Pdf

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 : James L. Watson,Rubie Sharon Watson
Publisher : Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061318054

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Village Life in Hong Kong by James L. Watson,Rubie Sharon Watson Pdf

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 : T. Saich,B. Hu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137035158

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Chinese Village, Global Market by T. Saich,B. Hu Pdf

The story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation, this book shows how outcomes are shaped by a number of factors such as path dependence, social structures, economic resources and local entrepreneurship.

Author : Arthur H. Smith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752425703

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Village Life in China by Arthur H. Smith Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Village Life in China by Arthur H. Smith

Author : Hans Steinm
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857458919

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Communities of Complicity by Hans Steinm Pdf

Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caught between the moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in Hubei Province, central China) is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural China. Drawing on descriptions of village life, interspersed with targeted theoretical analyses, the author examines how ordinary people construct their own senses of their lives and their futures in everyday activities: building houses, working, celebrating marriages and funerals, gambling and dealing with local government. The villagers confront moral uncertainty; they creatively harmonize public discourse and local practice; and sometimes they resolve incoherence and unease through the use of irony. In so doing, they perform everyday ethics and re-create transient moral communities at a time of massive social dislocation.

Author : Jan Myrdal
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037622797

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Return to a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973-06
Category : Ancestor worship
ISBN : 9780804770408

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The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese Village by Anonim Pdf

This study deals primarily with Ch'inan, a village in northern Taiwan whose residents belong to one ethnic group: Hokkien-speaking Chinese whose ancestors made the journey from the southeast coast of mainland China over 200 years ago. It deals almost exclusively with the complex of institutions associated with the care and management of the dead. The book covers the history of Ch'inan, and how the village is organized today, making use of historical records, such as lineage genealogies. Sociological correlates of ancestor worship in ancestral halls and before domestic altars are examined. The darker side of ancestor worship is also explored, in which the dead stand out as dangerous creatures capable of harming or frightening the living. Perspective is then expanded to other parts of Taiwan, to consider how the form of the community affects the cult of the ancestors, how different reciprocal obligations between the living the dead affect ancestor worship, and in what ways people react to the obligations of ancestor worship.

Author : Yunxiang Yan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804764117

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Private Life under Socialism by Yunxiang Yan Pdf

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.

Author : William L. Parish,Martin King Whyte
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1980-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226645916

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Village and Family in Contemporary China by William L. Parish,Martin King Whyte Pdf

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 : Shen Fuyu
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781662600753

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The Artisans by Shen Fuyu Pdf

Evoking Studs Terkel, Shen Fuyu delivers a rollicking deep dive into working life in a small village in rural China, tracing the last 100 years of history. Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family of farmers. Years later, Shen, now a writer, returned to his hometown to capture the village’s rich history in the face of industrialization. Through his own childhood memories and those of his ancestors, Shen resurrects the working life of Shen Village through interlinked stories of fifteen artisans as their lives intersect over the course of a century. While Shen's view of his hometown and his heritage is tinged with nostalgia, he does not romanticize it. Nor does he sugarcoat the backbreaking difficulty of life in rural China, but he still captures its small satisfactions and joys of loving one’s work with a great deal of care. In an acerbic, earthy and unsparing style that swings from poignancy to comedy, sometimes within a single paragraph, Shen evokes the spirits of these workers--a bamboo-weaver and his beloved bull, a carpenter’s magical saw, the deserter who became the village lantern-maker and a rebellious woman who beats up her own kidnapper. A reflection on the vicissitudes of small-town life during the epic shift from agricultural to industrial civilization, The Artisans vividly details the hardships, friendships and communal mythmaking of a disappearing community.