Japan’s Intercultural Significance to Rural Investigation in North China in the 1940s- Centering on the Survey of Rural China

摘要

Since the 20th century in Japan for a number of solid-state survey in rural China, a considerable part of Old Chinese rural traditions, mode of production and social order of investigation, it is also known as “used to line the investigation” or “old inertia investigation.” A long time these surveys carried out large-scale, wide geographical scope, covering all aspects of political, economic, cultural, military, Japan offers a variety of information materials to help Japan understand the objective situation in China. These survey data at the time and after the war, published in the form of an investigation report, as the two scholars of China’s important information. This paper will focus on the survey of China’s rural customary practice, and analyze and probe into Japan’s survey of rural customary practice in North China in the 1940s.