Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) ›› 2005, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2): 110-116.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2005.02.017

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A Review of Studies on the Twentieth-century Chinese Villages

Zhong huai HUANG   

  • Received:2004-10-27 Online:2005-03-25 Published:2005-02-25

Abstract:

A village is both a spatial unity and a social unit. Accordingly, researches on village have received attention from various disciplines since the 1930s. The village scale, landscape form, space distribution and social structure have been explored from different angles, including relations of the village development to its environment, pupulation and farming system. Among these subjects are geog-raphy, history and anthropology that have gained the most outstanding achievements. Due to a shortage of relevant reference materials, however, this kind of study needs further deepening, especially in its theories and methods about the village development.

Key words: village, the status quo of current study, tendency

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