英文摘要 |
This article provides a detailed description and analysis of the process of agro-industrial development in a rural Taiwan setting. The author attempts to examine the relationship between factors which induce change and demarcate types so as to develop better insight into and predict the trends of change in rural Taiwan. For purposes of examining the Liu Ts'o Village within its temporal and spatial environment, agro-industrial change in the larger community and over the past thirty years have been taken into consideration. At the village level, the author collected and analyzed data concerning land transaction and utilization, the nature of work, capital accumulation and the rise of rural industry, as well as socio-economic status and family types. The author intends to show how Liu Ts'o Village has transformed from an agriculture-dominated village to an agriculture-subordinated community. |