The Urbanization and Modernization of Chinese Villages in Historical Perspectives

继1988年8月进行的预调查后，我们两位成员又前往上海近郊丰县进行主调查。这项工作是与上海社会科学院的成员合作完成的。调查由两个科目组成。一个是查找官方文件，另一个是向农民提问。首先，我们成功地收集了丰县文房局提供的土改记录和上海市保安局提供的户籍等官方记录。其次，我们对唐家村五个自然村的农民进行了问卷调查，询问他们从革命前到今天的社会经济变化。项目问题包括家庭构成、劳动力构成、农户经济、农场经营方式、家庭收入、劳动状况、社会地位、教育状况、婚姻状况、农民社会网络等。收集的数据可以分析上海郊区农村社区经历土地改革和社会主义改革等政治运动的情况。我们正在分析革命后的政治运动是否能从根本上改变中国的传统农村社会。

In succession of the pre-survey carried in August 1988, we two of members proceeded to the main survey in Feng-xian county of Shanghai surburbs. The work was done in cooperation with the members of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.The survey is composed of two subjects. One is finding official documents and the other is putting questions to peasants. First we succeeded in collecting such official records, as records of Land Reform offered by the house of documents at Feng-xiancounty and household registers offered by Safe Guard Bureau of Shanghai city. Secondly we asked peasants, who lived in five natural villages of Tang-jia village, questions on the socioeconomic changes from pre-revolutional period till today. The items qestions are family composition, labour force composition, farm household economy, the way of farm management, family income, working condition, social status, educational condition, marriage condition, social network of peasantsp, etc.The date collected mentioned above made it possible to analyse how a rural community of Shanghai suberbs experienced political movements as Land Reform and Socialistic Reform. We are now in analising to make it cleare if those political movements carried after revolution couldfundamentally change the traditonal raral communities in China.