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5. In remote areas , village size dwindles, settlements may consist of only five or six houses, and there are a few areas where farmers live in individual farmsteads.

6. Some villages known as single-lineage villages are composed entirely of households with the same surname.

7. Maonan Ethnic Minority lives in single-lineage villages

9. Villages vary enormously in their level of modernization and connection to the outside world.

10. Rural Village in Guangdong

12. Dang Jia Village, Han City, Shanxi

16. Agricultural Collectives After 1949, the Chinese government gradually added a new organizational structure on the traditional base-- the organization of farmers into collectives, which took over responsibility for agricultural production from individual households. From the mid-1950s to the early 1980s, the collectives were the dominant rural institution. During the heyday of the socialist economy, the primary role was always to organize agricultural production, but collectives were also organizations for the delivery of services and goods that had previously not been available in the countryside. Moreover, they were inevitably instruments for the extension of state political control into the countryside.

20. Table 1 Changes in the organization of agriculture ( *basic accounting unit) household * household household household household Team * (30 households) Team Small village or neighborhood Village Brigade (200 households) Agricultural producers cooperative* (100-250 households) Large village Township (3000 households) government and economic cooperation Commune (2000 households) Commune * (over 5000 households) Standard marketing area-market town 1982-present 1962-1981 1958-1959 1956-1958 Natural units

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