Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) ›› 2004, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 78-85.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2004.05.010

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A Tentative Analysis of Peasants'Leaving Their Home Villages and Changes of Rural Ideas

Xiang-cheng KONG   

  • Received:2004-02-18 Online:2004-09-25 Published:2004-05-25

Abstract:

The 1920s and 1930s was an important period in which modern peasants left their home villages on a large scale. Through a typical survey of Jiangsu Province, this paper seeks to explore the relation of peasants' leaving their home villages to revolutions of modern rural conventional ideas, based on an analysis of its impact on peasants' conventional values and its remaking of their ideas of clan and family, and to grasp their multiple, complicated mentalities on their way of modernization and transformations of their social mentalities.

Key words: 1920s - 1930s, Jiangsu Province, peasants'leaving their home villages, rural idea

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