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Land_Reform

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000E-2862-6

Title: Land Reform

Description: The dialogue recalls the experiences of Land Reform in the village in the 1950s. Land Reform in China was initiated by the Government. It refers to shifting traditional land ownership from land owners and wealthy peasants to individual peasants. Villagers who had their own fields and hired part-time laborers were classified as the landlords. Those who had fields, but did not hire any part-time laborers were classified as the wealthy peasants. Land Reform confiscated the land and the grain of the landlords and wealthy peasants. What was confiscated was shared by the villagers equally. No one could get more than the others. The owners of the land and grain could not keep more, either.

Date created: 2006-03

Location

Continent: Asia

Country: China

Project

ID: MDP0095

Name: 0260-MDP0095

Description: Summary of depositSouthern Tujia (土家. ISO-639: tjs) is a tonal Tibeto-Burman language spoken in a small number of villages in the mountainous Wuling Range of the western Hunan and Hubei provinces of central south China.There are around 6 million Tujia people, however only a small number of these speak the Southern Tujia variant. The Northern variant (ISO-639: tji) is more widely spoken.This collection will contain data on language structure, phonological, lexical, and grammatical features. There will also be audio recordings of natural speech and folk literature. The aim is for this collection to contain the maximum amount of information about the language and about traditional culture expressed through the language, and to document other aspects of the language for which inadequate information exists. As part of the collection there will also be a reference grammar, a Tujia-Chinese-English dictionary, and corpora of traditional oral literature, which will be useful for both linguists and the speaker community, will be produced. Chinese will be used as the explanatory language in the grammars, and as the translation language for texts.Group representedTujia (Bizika) people, China.Language informationSouthern Tujia (土家) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the mountainous areas of central south China, and has no literary tradition or adequate documentation. It currently is in the final phase of an apparently inexorable decline: the number of native speakers is less than 1000, and almost every remaining speaker is bilingual in Tujia and Chinese.

Content

Genre: Narrative

Languages

Language

Name: Tujia, Southern

Description: content language

Actor

Full Name: Xiang Zixing

Role: Consultant

Actor

Full Name: Xiang Qingchun

Role: Consultant

Actor

Full Name: Shixuan Xu

Role: Researcher

Media Files

Filename: Land_Reform.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0002-D742-0

File type: Audio

Access: U

Written Resources

Filename: Land_Reform.pdf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0002-D743-D

File type: Document

Access: U

Filename: Land_Reform.trs

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0002-D741-E

File type: Transcriber

Access: U

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