The Path to Sun Village

Preface: A Village Path alongside China's Highway of Development
List of Illustrations

1 Intermarriage Spheres and Affinal Networks
?Part 1: Intermarriage Spheres: Social Change and the Expansion and Contraction of Intermarriage Regions
??The Rural Social Space of Sun Village
??The Situation of Intermarriage and Its Revision of "Common Sense"
??Why the Distance of Intermarriage is Shrinking
?Part 2: Affinal Networks: Continuity and Transformation in the Conventions of Marriage and Affinal Relations
??Old Conventions in the Mao Era: Protecting Traditional Core Values of Marriage and the Family
??"Walking Rites": The Goodness of Uniting Two Surnames
??Changing Conventions in the "Era of Black Marriages" and Thereafter
??Conclusion: From "Many Branches" to "Deep Roots"

2 The Realms of Yin and Yang
?Part 1: Synchronic Communities: Gods, Ghosts, and People in a Post-revolutionary Era
??From the Imperial to the Post-revolutionary Era
??"We are Both Wretched Vagabonds in a Strange Land"
??"Fallen to the Earth and Crushed to Dust, Only the Fragrance Remains"
??When the Boundary between Yin and Yang is Breached: The Persistence of Affective Bonds between Ghosts and the Living
??Synchronic Communities
?Appendix to Part 1 of Chapter 2
?part 2: Efficacy Depending on Faith: The Scope and Cycles of Tongji Power
??The Vast Distance between Heaven and the Living
??"My Identity as a Woman"
??Preference for Secular over Supernatural Decision-Making
??The Authority of Each Medium Lasts Two or Three Years
?Part 3: Pretending that Gods Exist: Relations between People and Gods in Collective Rituals
??Block Divination
??Yuanxiao at Yongjin Temple
??Welcoming the Gods
??"Going Out to Run around the Territory"
??"Running Across the Arena" and "Calming Down to Dismount"
??"Selecting the Next Year's Ritual Heads"
??Distributing "Boy Biscuits"
??The Utilitarianization of Supernatural Relations in Collective Rituals
?Part 4: A Thin Interface: The "Balanced Rationality" among Gods, People, and Horses
??Keeping Pace to Entertain Gods: From "Using Horses for Work" to "Using Horses for Ritual"
??The Tracks of a Thousand Troops and Ten Thousand Horses: "Horse Agents" and "Horse-Leaders"
??In the Spring, Hooves Gallop Gaily: Horse-Leaders, Horse Markets, and Clients during Yuanxiao
??Those on Horseback Cannot See the Situation on the Ground: Horse-Leaders, Horses, and Gods
??Society and Culture as Matrix

3 Building Roads: "The Cultural Nexus of Power"
?Accounting and the State
?The Weakening of Popular Authority before 1949
?Political Consolidation and the Resurgence of Religious Authority (1949-1985)
?The Interaction between Popular Authorities and State Brokers (1986 to the Present)

4 "Beyond the Boundary": A Countermovement to the Hollowing-out of Rural China
?Social Networks in a Peripheral Region
?From Periphery to Center: The On-site Concentration of Dajin Resources
?Gaining the Upper Hand through Hometown-Based Economic Networks
?The Mutual Activation of Rural Social Resources and Tongxiang Tongye Economy
?A Countermovement against the "Hollowing-Out" of Rural China

Appendix: A Micro-History of Rural Society: Sun Village before and during the Revolutionary Period
?i?Livelihood
?ii?Epidemics
?iii?Clans
?iv?Water Resource Management
?v?"People's Schools"
?vi?"Able-Bodied Men"
?vii?"Personages"
?viii?Modern Schools
?ix?Bandits
?x?Land Reform
?xi?"Fording the Famine"
?xii?The "Socialist Education" Campaign
?xiii?The Cultural Revolution

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