Rural Society of Taihu Lake Basin and Fieldwork in Modern China

本文采用田野调查和访谈相结合的方法，对1930-1950年中国太湖地区的乡村生活进行了研究。访谈不是史学家们常用的方法，但我们大胆地提出了挑战，因为与乡村社会相关的文献史料不足以分析。在本研究中，我们共进行了十次调查，访谈了二百多位老年居民。在此基础上，我们发表了两份报告的太湖地区。将来，我们还想再出一本书。

Using fieldwork and interview, we studied about the village life of the Taihu lake area in 1930-1950 China. Interview is not ordinary technique for historians, but we challenged daringly, because documents historical materials related to rural society is not enough to analysis. In this project, we investigated at ten times and interviewed with more than two hundred elderly inhabitants. Based on this results, we published two reports of the Taihu lake area. In the future, we want to publish one more book.