Kaixiangong

English Alternative forms en K'ai-hsien-kung Kaihsienkung Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 開弦弓. Pronunciation en /ˌkaɪʃjænˈɡɒŋ/ /ˌkaɪʃjɛnˈɡʊŋ/ kī′shyĕn′go͝ong′ en Kai xian gong Proper noun en village town/Qidu district/Wujiang prefecture-level city/Suzhou p/Jiangsu c/China. 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. on 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. on en 1981 Other Ways of Growing Old https://archive.org/details/otherwaysofgrowi0000unse/ Stanford, Cali. w:Stanford University Press 0-8047-1072-4 79-66056 470974034 195 https://archive.org/details/otherwaysofgrowi0000unse/page/195/ Fei Xiaotong (Fei Hsiao-tung) (1939 : 22) reported that people over 60 constituted 6.3 percent of the village of Kaixiangong (K'ai-hsien-kung) in 1936, and those over 70 were 1.4 percent, exactly the proportions I found in my survey of Ploughshare. en 1983 Anne F. Thurston; Burton Pasternak The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China: Views from the Field https://archive.org/details/socialsciencesfi0000unse/ Boulder, CO w:Westview Press 0-86531-644-9 83-50706 924765275 12 https://archive.org/details/socialsciencesfi0000unse/page/12/ In reporting here on his recent visits to the village of Kaixiangong, Fei Xiaotong presents the views of one of China's most noted social anthropologists on recent changes in the Chinese countryside as reflected in the village he first studied in 1936. Through a projected series of visits to Kaixiangong over the next several years, Fei hopes eventually to provide an update to his classic book, Peasant Life in China, first published in 1939.¹⁴ Kaixiangong has recently been designated a "field research station," and new Chinese graduate students in sociology will have an opportunity to conduct field research in that village and its surrounding region. en 2000 Xin Liu In One's Own Shadow: an Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-reform Rural China https://archive.org/details/inonesownshadowe0000liux/ w:University of California Press 0-520-21993-7 99-31248 760479906 86 https://archive.org/details/inonesownshadowe0000liux/page/86/ For example, when Fei Xiaotong studied the rural community of Kaixiangong (Kaihsienkung) half a century ago, he found these three calendars already in use. en Translations village in eastern China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 開弦弓 Kāixiángōng Japanese: ja en 3-syllable words