Century of Change in a Chinese Village (eBook)

The Crisis of the Countryside

Lin Juren, Xie Yuxi (Autoren)

Linda Grove (Herausgeber)

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2018
312 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1236-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Over the last half century, China has evolved from a poor rural country to a geopolitical powerhouse. Rapid urbanization has been at the heart of that transformation, and as migrant laborers have left their villages, what has become of the rural communities that were once the center of economic, social, and cultural life? And how do contemporary Chinese scholars understand those changes? These are the questions that this compelling book answers. Lengshuigou village, located near the Shandong provincial capital of Jinan, was first studied by Japanese social scientists in the early 1940s and then again in the 1980s and 1990s. Building on these rich surveys, this book traces changes from the early twentieth century to the present day in family and lineage, social stratification, personal networks, annual and life cycle rituals, village politics, and elite formation. Drawing on their own large-scale survey of contemporary village households, the authors analyze the physical and institutional changes that have altered the community, as well as the shifts in interpersonal relations and attitudes that have upended centuries-old systems of patriarchy and generational order. This important book presents, for the first time in English, analysis by Chinese sociologists on the radical transformation of Chinese rural society.

Autor

Lin Juren is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Shandong University. Xie Yuxi is lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Shandong University. Linda Grove is professor emerita at Sophia University in Tokyo, where she was vice president for research and international exchange.

Inhalt

List of MeasuresList of Figures and TablesChronologyPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Lengshuigou in Time and SpaceChapter 2 Changes in Village Politics and Village ElitesChapter 3 Lineage and Family RelationshipsChapter 4 Social Structure and Social LifeChapter 5 Cultural Tradition and Folk CustomsChapter 6 Social Relationships and Network StructuresChapter 7 Economic Structure and DevelopmentChapter 8 Transformation and Future of the VillageEpilogueReferencesIndexAbout the Editor

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 45 Illustrations including: - 14 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 3 Maps; - 25 Tables; - 3 Graphs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • China's economic transformation • Chinese economic transformation • Chinese family • Chinese history • Chinese migrant laborers • Chinese rural society • Chinese social and cultural history • Chinese sociology • Chinese studies • Chinese urbanization • chinese village • Chinese village studies • History of China • history of modern Chiina • kankô chôsa villages • KMT • KMT and the church • Lengshuigou village • Mantetsu villages • migrant laborers • reform era China • Rural China • rural society • rural sociology • Sinology
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-1236-1 / 1538112361
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-1236-6 / 9781538112366