Historical Perspectives on Rural Social Change in Modern China

尽管近年来发表了许多关于中国农村社会的研究，但很少有研究能够延续日本研究人员在20世纪40年代初以中国农村为研究对象的革命前村庄的历史。我们选择这些村庄，是因为原始研究的详细记录为衡量过去50年发生的变化提供了一条基线。来自日本的8名研究人员与南开大学历史系的中国研究人员一起研究了选定村庄的社会历史。该项目的第一阶段是在1990年夏天进行的，当时联合调研组访问了遵义县沙井和房山区吴店两个村庄。波特克隶属于北京市。在这些访问期间，研究小组分成几个小组采访村里的居民，收集…的生活史更多的老年居民，并收集统计数据，所有村庄家庭的家谱，以及其他记录。由于自20世纪40年代日本原始考察队访问五甸村以来，外国研究人员一直没有访问过该村，因此我们将该村作为第一阶段项目的重点，内山秀登将于1992年6月出版一批采访记录和其他数据。项目第二阶段(1991年)的大部分成员参加了关于北中国农村社会的会议。会议结束后，我们计划返回无甸，但未能获得中国教育部的许可，无法继续这项工作。作为最好的选择，我们南开的同事安排我们花一周的时间去参观大天津市静海县的冯家庄村。20世纪40年代，曼特苏研究小组也曾对这个村庄进行过短暂的研究。在那次访问中，我们对村民进行了42次访谈，收集了广泛的数据，包括关于土地改革的原始材料。这些采访录像带和第一年项目的所有录像带一样，已经转录并将被翻译和编辑成我们关于中国北部乡村社会的报道的第二卷。左志远、张洪祥对日本进行了为期18天的访问。在日本期间，他们访问了一桥大学、上智大学和大阪外国语大学，并在那里发表了演讲，与日本近现代史领域的专家们交换了意见。较少

Although many studies of Chinese rural society have been published in recent years, very few of them have been able to provide any continuity with the pre-revolutionary history of the villages studied by project took as its subjects Chinese villages that were studied by Japanese researchers in the early 1940s. We chose those villages because the detailed records of the original studies provide a base line from which to measure the changes that have occurred in the last fifty years.Eight researchers from Japan joined a team of Chinese researchers from the history department of Nankai University to study the social history of the selected villages. The first stage of the project was conducted during the summer of 1990 when the joint research team visited two villages, Shajing in Xunyi county and Wudian in Fangshan district. Botk are attached to Beijing municipality. During those visits the research team broke into small groups to interview village residents, collecting the life histories … More of older residents and gathering statistical data, genealogies of all village families, and other records. Since Wudian village had not been visited by foreign researchers since the 1940s visit of the original Japanese research team, we have made that village the focus for the first stage of the project, and a volume of interview transcripts and other data will be published in June 1992 by Uchiyama Shoten.The second stage of the project (1991) involved the participation of most of the members in a conference on North China rural society. Following the conference we planned to return to Wudian, but were unable to obtain permission from the Chinese Ministry of Education to continue that work. As the best available alternative, out Nankai colleagues arranged for us to spend a week "visiting" the village of Fengjiazhuang in Jinghai county, greater Tianjin municipality. This village had also been briefly studied by the Mantetsu research team in the 1940s. During that visit we were able to conduct 42 interviews with village residents and to collect a wide range of data including original materials on land reform. These interview tapes, as all of those from the first year's project, have been transcribed and will be translated and edited to form the second volume in our reports on north China village society.During 1991 two of our Nankai colleagues, Profs. Zuo Zhiyuan and Zhang Hongxiang visited Japan for 18 days. During their time in Japan they visited and gave presentations at Hitotsubashi University, Sophia University and Osaka University of Foreign Studies and exchanged views with Japanese specialists in the fields of modern and contemporary Chinese history. Less