Meaning of Kaihsienkung | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“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.”

Peasant Life in China

“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⟳.”

“Geddes goes over what Fei said on cross-cousin marriage in the village, amplifying the analysis at one point⟳, but not treating the matter⟳ more generally. The implication appears to be that cross-cousin marriage no longer takes place⟳ in Kaihsienkung.”

“Since it is unlikely that these families averaged more than one unmarried son old enough to be matched with a t’ung-yang-hsi, these figures suggest⟳ that minor marriages accounted for approximately 20 percent of all first marriages. This was in 1931. Five years later the distinguished anthropologist Fei Hsiao-tung found approximately the same incidence of minor marriage in Kaihsienkung, a village on the shore of Lake T’ai in southern Kiangsu.”

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