Kaixiangong

English

Alternative forms

• K'ai-hsien-kung, Kaihsienkung (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 開弦弓／开弦弓 (Kāixiángōng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaɪʃjænˈɡɒŋ/, /ˌkaɪʃjɛnˈɡʊŋ/

Proper noun

Kaixiangong

1. A village in Qidu, Wujiang district, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
   • [1939, Hsiao-tung (費孝通) Fei, 江村經濟 [Peasant Life in China]‎^[1], London: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, →OL, pages 9–10:

     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.]

   • [1958, Elman R. Service, Profiles in Ethnology‎^[2], Harper & Row, published 1963, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, 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.]

   • 1981, Other Ways of Growing Old‎^[3], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

   • 1983, Anne F. Thurston, Burton Pasternak, editors, The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China: Views from the Field‎^[4], Boulder, CO: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

   • 2000, Xin Liu, In One's Own Shadow: an Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-reform Rural China‎^[5], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kaixiangong.

Translations

village in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 開弦弓／开弦弓 (Kāixiángōng)

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