Interpreting the Concept of Rural Areas in China

The concept of rural China is explained as follows:

Locality: Villagers are the grassroots of China society. They take farming as their basic way of life and obtain living resources from the land, so they are inseparable from and bound by the land.

Native China is a sociological work created by contemporary sociologist Fei Xiaotong. It was first published on 1948. Native China is a book written by Fei Xiaotong to study rural areas in China. The book consists of 14 articles, covering the humanistic environment, traditional social structure, power distribution, moral system, legal ceremony, blood relationship and geographical environment of rural society.

In Native China, the author summarizes and analyzes the main features of grass-roots society in China with simple and popular language, which fully shows the face of grass-roots society in China. The book mainly discusses the pattern of difference order, the difference between men and women, family, blood relationship and geography. The language of this book is fluent and easy to understand.

Native China is recognized by academic circles as one of the important representative works of theoretical research on traditional culture and social structure of rural society in China.

brief Introduction of the content

The book "Native China" includes native nature, native writing, native re-writing, different patterns, maintaining private morality, family, differences between men and women, and no litigation in etiquette.

The four papers 14, such as Politics by Doing Nothing, Politics by Elders, Kinship and Geography, Separation of Name and Reality, and From Desire to Need, deeply dissect the structure and essence of rural society in China from rural communities, cultural inheritance, family system, moral concepts, power structure, social norms, social changes and many other aspects.

Creation background

From Britain's return to China in the late 1930s, to Kunming and Queequeg in Yunnan, Chicago and Boston in the United States, and then to Britain and Tsinghua, Fei Xiaotong crossed the northern and southern hemispheres of China in 10, and experienced fieldwork, international exchanges and historical discussions.

The public space of his activities is constantly changing, and the social space is constantly expanding, forming a social relationship model intertwined with time and space. It is in this transformation of space-time structure that local China came into being.