Kaihsienkung

English Etymology From en cmn 開弦弓, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Kʻai¹-hsien²-kung¹. Proper noun en Kaixiangong. en 1939 Hsiao-tung (zh 費孝通) Fei zh:江村經濟<t:Peasant Life in China> https://archive.org/details/peasantlifeinchi0000feih/ London w:George Routledge and Sons 823027574 20963296M 9–10 https://archive.org/details/peasantlifeinchi0000feih/page/10/ The village chosen for my investigation is called Kaihsienkung, locally pronounced kejiug’on. It is situated on the south-east bank of Lake Tai, in the lower course of the Yangtze River and about eighty miles west of Shanghai. en 1958 Elman R. Service Profiles in Ethnology https://archive.org/details/profilesinethnol0000elma/ w:Harper & Row 1963 63-9050 917241893 20944960M 451 https://archive.org/details/profilesinethnol0000elma/page/451/ At the time of Fei’s study, Kaihsienkung had two headmen. The elder of the two did not deal with the higher government, having allowed a younger man to fill the official post. en 1966 Maurice Freedman Relations Between Lineages Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwangtung https://archive.org/details/chineselineageso00free/ w:Athlone Press 66-11164 728707843 98 https://archive.org/details/chineselineageso00free/page/98/ Geddes goes over what Fei said on cross-cousin marriage in the village, amplifying the analysis at one point, but not treating the matter more generally. The implication appears to be that cross-cousin marriage no longer takes place in Kaihsienkung. en 1980 Arthur P. Wolf; Chieh-shan Huang Introduction Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945 https://archive.org/details/marriageadoption00wolf/ Stanford, Cal. w:Stanford University Press 0-8047-1027-9 78-66182 469656299 4747643M 8 https://archive.org/details/marriageadoption00wolf/page/8/ Since it is unlikely that these families averaged more than one unmarried son old enough to be matched with a t’ung-yang-hsi, these figures suggest that minor marriages accounted for approximately 20 percent of all first marriages. This was in 1931. Five years later the distinguished anthropologist Fei Hsiao-tung found approximately the same incidence of minor marriage in Kaihsienkung, a village on the shore of Lake T’ai in southern Kiangsu. en Further reading Kaihsienkung