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INDEX
Agent boat:
as buying agent, 249 f.
as selling agent, 254 f.
as credit agent, 274 f.
and marketing area, 257
Ancestor:
worship, 30
sacrifice, 76
mourning for, 77 f.
Birth ceremony, menyu, 35, 86
and neighbourhood, 98 -9
expenses of, 132
Boat, its importance in communi-
cation, 19, 123
BODDE, DERK: on calendar, 146
BUCK, J. L.:
on grave land, 75
on ceremonial expenses, 133
on rate of interest, 278
Calendar:
lunar system, 145
section or Chieh system, 146 f.
Western solar system, 148
time table of economic and other
social activities, 152 -3
CHANG TA TI (God of flood):
his birth day, 150
mythology of, 167
CHEN HAN SENG:
on land leasing, 180
on transference of land right, 183
on permanent tenancy, 184
on collective ownership of land,
187
on land policy, 190
Chia, expanded family:
definition, 27 -8
constitution, 28, 29 note 1
average size, 29
division of, 28, 65 f.
authority in, 37, 48, 63, 234
property of, 59 - 63
economic power of the head, 62 -3
Clothing:
social distinction, 124
expenses of, 125
Communication: in relation to
village plan, 19
Credit:
defined, 263 -4
financial aid society, 267 f.
agent boat, 274 f.
usuary, 276 f.
co-operative society, 280 f.
Cross-cousin marriage
parental selection, 42
up-hill type, saonseodiu, and re-
verting type wesienodiu, 50 -1, 89
Cultural change:
nature of Chinese, 1 - 2
function of social science in, 2
difficulties in, 3
seen in village plan, 21
Daughter-in-law:
her relation with husband and
other relatives, 45 -6, 233 f.
stabilizing her new position, 46 -7
difficulties in adjustment, 47 -9
desertion and committing suicide,
49
new legislation, 81
Definition of a situation, 3 - 4
Descent:
principle of, 31
and sex equality, 3 - 4, 32, 81
obliterations of, 70 f.
new legislation on, 81
Division of labour:
occupational differentiation, 138 f.
among men, women, and chil-
dren, 170
Exchange:
defined, 240
types of, 240 f.
Family:
defined, 27
nucleus of a Chia, 29
property of, 61

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Publication Information: Book Title: Peasant Life in China: A Field Study of Country Life in the Yangtze Valley. Contributors: Hsiao-Tung Fei - author. Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1946. Page Number: 297.
    
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