Traditional Chinese Villages
Traditional Chinese Villages

Author: Linping Xue

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2022-06-17

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9789813361560

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This book uses the concept of the region to introduce traditional Chinese villages in ten typical areas. Most of the villages have been included in the World Cultural Heritage List or the Tentative List and reflect the diversity of rural and traditional life. Richly illustrated with pictures of architectural decorations, dwellings, day-to-day country life and aerial views of settlements, it not only enhances readers’ knowledge of China’s traditional architectural culture but also provides inspiration for architectural creation. It is a valuable resource for graduate students, lecturers and researchers in the field of traditional villages, heritage conservation and Chinese architectural culture.

Traditional Chinese Villages
Traditional Chinese Villages

Author: Linping Xue

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9813361549

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This book uses the concept of the region to introduce traditional Chinese villages in ten typical areas. Most of the villages have been included in the World Cultural Heritage List or the Tentative List and reflect the diversity of rural and traditional life. Richly illustrated with pictures of architectural decorations, dwellings, day-to-day country life and aerial views of settlements, it not only enhances readers’ knowledge of China’s traditional architectural culture but also provides inspiration for architectural creation. It is a valuable resource for graduate students, lecturers and researchers in the field of traditional villages, heritage conservation and Chinese architectural culture.

Ancient China: Villages
Ancient China: Villages

Author: Howard Shi

Publisher: Make Do Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789881841988

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Travel guide to some of China's most historic villages, with colour photos.

South China Village Culture
South China Village Culture

Author: James Hayes

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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The true essence of China is rooted in its villages. The traditional village culture of South China, as elsewhere in the country, is a microcosm of the greater society and philosophy of China, both ancient and modern. This book focuses particularly on Hong Kong and Shenzhen, originally part of the same county in Guangdong province, which share a rich heritage of diverse influences - a mix of doctrines and varied beliefs, interwoven with regional social and economic practices operating through a well-ordered local organisation - that have helped make this region the success it is today.

Chinese Landscapes
Chinese Landscapes

Author: Ronald G. Knapp

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780824814137

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"The studies collected in this volume were written by anthropologists, architects, geographers, historians, a sociologist, and a veterinary ecologist. Taken together they form an exceptionally coherent survey of Chinese villages, ranging from the dry north to the humid southeast and southwest of this vast country. Going beyond books on Chinese vernacular architecture that focus on individual dwellings, this work examines the village ensemble itself, the various settings for the habitation, work, and leisure of China's large rural population." "Discussions of design, spatial layout, physical setting, settlement patterns, geomantic principles (fengshui), and evolutionary patterns set the stage for eighteen village case studies. Many villages still preserve characteristics that evoke a respect for and understanding of "old China," while others expose the drastic metamorphosis of recent decades. Villages are examined as places, emphasizing that which is visible; each village has its own order and complex of natural and human elements. Chinese Landscapes, though it focuses on the physical appearance of individual villages as they are situated within the constellation that comprises the Chinese landscape, suggests much about more general social, economic, and political patterns."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Village Governance in North China
Village Governance in North China

Author: Huaiyin Li

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2005-03-09

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0804767556

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This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and moral economy models by taking into account both material and symbolic dimensions of power and interest in the peasant community. The author's interpretation of village/state relations before 1900 transcends the state and society dichotomy and accentuates the interplay between formal and informal institutions and practices. His account of "state making" after 1900 underscores the continuity of endogenous arrangements in the course of institutional formalization and the interpenetration between official discourse and popular notions in the new process of political legitimization.

Chinese Village Life Today
Chinese Village Life Today

Author: Gonçalo Santos

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2021-08-22

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0295747390

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China has undergone a remarkable process of urbanization, but a significant portion of its citizens still live in rural villages. To gain better access to jobs, health care, and consumer goods, villagers often travel or migrate to cities, and that cyclical transit and engagement with new technoscientific and medical practices is transforming village life. In this thoughtful ethnography, Gonçalo Santos paints a richly detailed portrait of one rural township in Guangdong Province, north of the industrialized Pearl River Delta region. Unlike previous studies of rural-urban relations and migration in China, Chinese Village Life Today—based on Santos’s more than twenty years of field research—starts from a rural community’s point of view rather than the perspective of major urban centers. Santos considers the intimate choices of village families in the face of larger forces of modernization, showing how these negotiations shape the configuration of daily village life, from marriage, childbirth, and childcare to personal hygiene and public sanitation. Santos also outlines the advantages of a rural existence, including a degree of autonomy over family planning and community life that is rare in urban China. Filled with vivid anecdotes and keen observations, this book presents a fresh perspective on China’s urban-rural divide and a grounded theoretical approach to rural transformation.

Village Life in China: A Study in Sociology
Village Life in China: A Study in Sociology

Author: Arthur H. Smith

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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The author had spent more than 20 years working and living in China developing a great respect for the Chinese, their customs, lifestyle, and philosophy. He thought that Chinese villages were a microcosm of the whole of the empire and he was certain that China would be a big player in the 20th century and later, but also realized that some things about their lifestyle would have to change, stating this as a prime reason for writing the book. In the foreward, he uses the phrase 'the Chinese problem' recognizing the fact that a better understanding of the Chinese was needed in the Western world.