Jiangcun Economy -- China Collection. Philosophy and Social Sciences Category

Author: Fei Xiaotong
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This academic work was compiled by Fei Xiaotong, a Chinese sociologist, based on survey data collected in Xianqianggong Village, Wujiang County, Jiangsu Province, in 1936. The author provides a detailed description of the consumption, production, distribution, and trade systems of Chinese farmers in the book, elucidating the relationship between the specific geographical environment of Jiangcun and the social structure of the community it belongs to. The book is renowned for its comprehensive data and objective, systematic descriptions, and is hailed as a milestone in the development of ethnographic fieldwork and theoretical research in anthropology.