The book Native China consists of 14 articles, covering human environment, traditional social structure, power distribution, moral system, legal ceremony, blood relationship, geography and so on. In Native China, the author summarizes and analyzes the main features of grass-roots society in China with simple and popular language, which fully shows the face of grass-roots society in China. The book mainly discusses the pattern of difference order, the difference between men and women, family, blood relationship and geography.

Fourteen papers: Rural China includes rural nature, writing going to the countryside, rewriting writing going to the countryside, different patterns, maintaining private morality, family, differences between men and women, rule by courtesy, no litigation, inaction politics, elder ruling, separation of name and reality, from desire to need.

Creation background

"Local China" originated from the content of "Rural Sociology" taught by the author at National Southwest Associated University and Yunnan University in the late 1940s. At that time, the author serialized 14 articles in stages at the request of the century review, and based on these contents and articles, he compiled Native China.

In this book, the author regards the rural areas in China as a special department included in the concrete traditional grass-roots society in China, which dominates all aspects of social life in China, and illustrates the characteristics of rural society with the facts in China.