Resurrection and Evolution of the Village Clan in Central Anhui-Province over the Past Thirty Years:With Paifang Village of Shanqi Town in Shucheng County for Example

Song Yanqi Zhang Jianhua  

It is almost thirty years since the village clans resurrected in the late 1970s.Studies on the causes of their resurrection have been on the increase in the academic circles.Based on the investigation of the development and changes over the thirty years in Paifang Village,a mountainous village in Central An- hui Province,this article divides the resurrection and evolution of rural clans in this period into two stages: the stage of transient resurrection of traditional clan functions from the late 1970s to the middle of 1990s and the stage of changes in clan notions,behaviors and organizations from the middle of the 1990s onwards.We can see from the analyses of the features of the two stages that the negative effects of clans are only a tem- porary phenomenon and that with the appearance of networked clans,a new combination of clans,the phe- nomenon of clans will not be finally dissolved in the big tide of modernization.

【Key Words】： rural society clan networked clans
【CateGory Index】： D422.6

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