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Title
Inside a Villager's House
Creator
MacKinnon, Stephen R
Date Created and/or Issued
1972-03-29
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Stephen MacKinnon Collection
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the copyright holder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
MacKinnon, Stephen R.
Description
Sleep on the bed, a heated bed platform ('kang') inside a peasant house. A kang is a hollow brick bed overlaid with straw mats. A series of flues underneath the kang all the the flow of hot air from the same fire that is used for cooking in another room.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb29729881
Subject
Peasants
Housing, Rural
Boys
Dwellings
Country life
Communes (China)
Rural conditions
Beds
Shashiyu sheng chan da dui (Zunhua Xian, China)
Shashiyu Cun (China)
Zunhua Xian (China)
Place
Shashiyu Cun (China)
Zunhua Xian (China)

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