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History of Chinese Villages (2 Volumes in Total)

Hu Binbin

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Traditional China is a "rural society". In such a civilizational structure, traditional villages dotted across the land of China have been the basic production units and social organizations of the Chinese people for a long time. They are the basic structure that nurtures Chinese culture. They are also a long-lasting and culturally representative space-time location in China's vast territory and long historical evolution. Cultivating the organizational structure, traditional wisdom, and cultural concepts derived from traditional villages is an important component of Chinese civilization. It still profoundly affects the social life and national temperament of modern Chinese people, and constitutes the internal characteristics and external form of an extremely strong and rich and diverse national culture. In modern China, where urbanization is advancing at a rapid pace, traditional villages are facing an existential crisis of rapidly disappearing. Therefore, rescue excavation and research on existing traditional villages and their cultural relics are of incomparable cultural value. The author of this book has visited more than 5,000 traditional villages in China over the past few decades and accumulated a large amount of field investigation data. Through the compilation and discussion of new materials and the citation and exploration of historical documents and classics, this book wanders through the past and present, from the origin of civilization to modern China. It completely presents and in-depth explains the evolution and development of traditional Chinese villages from a grand historical perspective. It tells the characteristics of traditional villages in different periods, their cultural significance and their interactive influence with the background of the times and social systems. Behind the hierarchical historical elaboration and the analytical citations, the panoramic appearance of traditional Chinese villages emerges vividly on the page.