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Peasant Life in China: A Field Study of Country Life in the Yangtze Valley

by Hsiao-Tung Fei. 302 pgs.

Contributors:

   Hsiao-Tung Fei

Publisher:

   Oxford Univ. Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1946

Subjects:

Villages--China, Peasantry--China, Yangtze River Valley (China)--Social Life And Customs, China--Social Life And Customs

	CONTENTS
	PREFACE BY BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI	xiii
I.	INTRODUCTION	1
II.	THE FIELD	7
1.	Delimitation of Field	7
2.	Geographical Foundation	9
3.	Economic Background	12
4.	The Village Site	17
5.	The People	21
6.	Reasons for Selecting the Field	24
	III. THE CHIA	27
1.	Chia as an Expanded Family	27
2.	Continuity of "Incense and Fire"	29
3.	Population Control	32
4.	Parents and Children	34
5.	Education	38
6.	Marriage	40
7.	The Daughter-in-law in the Chia	45
8.	Cross-cousin Marriage and Siaosiv	50
IV.	PROPERTY AND INHERITANCE	56
1.	Ownership	56
2.	Property of the Chia	59
3.	Transmission of Property	63
4.	Effects of Inheritance on Marriage and Descent	69
5.	Obligation of the Young	73
6.	New Legislation on Inheritance	79
V.	KINSHIP EXTENSIONS	83
1.	Paternal Extension	83
2.	Maternal Extension	86
3.	Pseudo-adoption	87
4.	Kinship Basis of the Village	90
VI.	THE HOUSEHOLD AND VILLAGE	95
1.	Household	95
2.	Neighbourhood	98
3.	Religious and Recreative Groups	99
4.	The Village Government	106
5.	The Imposed Administrative System, Pao Chea	109
VII.	LIVELIHOOD	117
1.	Cultural Control on Consumption	119
2.	Housing	120
3.	Transportation	123
4.	Clothing	124
5.	Nutrition	125
6.	Recreation	128
7.	Ceremonial Expenses	131
8.	Minimum Expenditure	134
VIII.	OCCUPATIONAL DIFFERENTIATION	138
1.	Agriculture as the Basic Occupation	138
2.	Special Occupations	139
3.	Fishing	142
IX.	CALENDAR OF WORK	144
1.	Systems of Time-Reckoning	144
2.	Three Calendars	148
3.	Time-Table of Economic and Other Social Activities	151
X.	AGRICULTURE	154
1.	Lay-out of the Farm	155
2.	Rice Cultivation	159
3.	Science and Magic	165
4.	Organization of Labour	169
XI.	LAND TENURE	174
1.	Lakes, Streams, and Roads	175
2.	Ownership of Farm-Land	177
3.	Farm Labourers and Land Leasing	178
4.	Absentee Landlordship	181
5.	Full-Ownership	191
6.	Inheritance and Agriculture	194
XII.	THE SILK INDUSTRY	197
1.	Scheme of the Process of Change	198
2.	Conditions Working for Industrial Change	201
3.	Agents of Change and their Intentions	203
4.	Local Support for Change	210
5.	Programme of Change in Raising Silkworms	212
6.	The Co-operative Factory	216
7.	Government Support	225
8.	Difficulties in Change	228
9.	Effects on Kinship Relations	233
XIII.	SHEEP RAISING AND TRADE VENTURES	236
XIV.	MARKETING	240
1.	Types of Exchange	240
2.	Internal and External Marketing	243
3.	Pedlars	244
4.	Retail Stores	247
5.	Agent Boats as Consumers' Buying Agent	249
6.	Agent Boats as Producers' Selling Agent	254
7.	Other Types of Collecting	256
8.	Marketing Areas and the Town	256
9.	Marketing and Production	259
XV.	FINANCE	263
1.	Saving and Deficiency	264
2.	Financial Aid Society	267
3.	Agent Boats as Credit Agent	274
4.	Usury	276
5.	Co-operative Credit Society	280
	XVI. AGRARIAN PROBLEMS IN CHINA	282
	APPENDIX. A NOTE ON CHINESE RELATIONSHIP TERMS	287
	INDEX	297

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