Household and Family in Kaixiangong: A Re-examination

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Opportunities to revisit a remote field site studied many years before are relatively rare in anthropology generally, but when the location happens to be China, we simply do not expect them to occur. It is, therefore, all the more remarkable that the village of Kaixiangong, first presented to the scholarly world in Fei Xiaotong's Peasant Life in China, should have been further described by William R. Geddes in 1955 and by Fei himself after a 1957 visit. When invited by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) to visit China in the summer of 1981 to undertake a scientific study of my choice, I was intrigued when Professor Fei suggested I request permission to go to Kaixiangong, and delighted when it was granted. I stayed in the community four days and nights during September, and the following is based on information gathered then.

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