A Chinese Village: Tai Tou, Shandong

Author: Yang Maichun
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: This book is a comprehensive and detailed study of a typical village in one of China's oldest agricultural regions. The village is the author's hometown, and with his familiarity and fairness toward the people there, the author wrote this book. Family life, village conflicts, crop planting, and children's games are just a few aspects of rural life that he describes. This book is a perfect combination of closeness to understanding and scientific precision, being a book that completely integrates and thoroughly understands all aspects of rural life in China. This book is listed alongside earlier works such as The Economy of Jianghan (by Fei Xiaotong), The Golden Wing (by Lin Yaohua), and later works such as Under the Shadow of Ancestors (by Xu Liangguang) as a landmark work in early Chinese anthropology.