Subject: Villages--China--19th century

Chinese Communist society: the family and the village
AuthorYang, C.K. [Yang Qingkun 楊慶堃], 1911-1999
PlaceCambridge, MA
PublisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
ShelfStacks
Call NumberHN680.N3 Y32 1959
Description284 p. ; 24 cm
Note

Chinese Communist society: the family and the village / C.K. Yang

Contains "The Chinese family in the Communist revolution" and "A Chinese village in early Communist transition."

 

LCCN59011517
Village life in China : a study in sociology
AuthorSmith, Arthur Henderson, 1845-1932Cohen, Myron L. (Myron Leon), 1937-
PlaceBoston
PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
CollectionRicci Institute Library
EditionFirst Printing
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
SeriesLittle, Brown Series in Anthropology
ShelfStacks
Call NumberDS721.V566 S658 1970
Descriptionxxvi, 278 p. : Ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
NoteVillage life in China : a study in sociology / Arthur H. Smith, with an introduction by Myron L. Cohen.
Originally published: New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1899.
Includes index.

Contents: Part I. The village, its institutions, usages, and public characters -- The Chinese village -- Construction of villages -- Village nomenclature -- Country roads -- The village ferry -- Village wells -- The village shop -- The village theatre -- Village schools and traveling scholars -- Chinese higher education -- The village high school, examinations, recent educational edicts -- Village temples and religious societies -- Cooperation in religious observances -- Cooperation in religious observances -- Cooperation in markets and fairs -- Cooperative loan societies -- Societies for watching the crops -- Village and city rain-making -- The village hunt -- Village weddings and funerals -- New Year in Chinese villages -- The village bully -- Village headmen.
Part II. Village family life -- Village boys and men -- Chinese country girls and women -- Monotony and vacuity of village life -- Unstable equilibrium of the Chinese family -- Instability from family disunity.
Part III. Regeneration of the Chinese village -- What can Christianity do for China?

LCCN75-106495