引言 30年代曾是中国早期社会学的繁荣时期,那时的家庭研究就很盛行。有关农村家庭问题的一些论著曾经传播国内外,既有中文版,也有英文版。不幸的是,随着日本军国主义的入侵和第二次世界大战的爆发,正规的学术研究不得不陷入停顿状态。中华人民共和国成立后不久,我国农村就开始实行土地改革。不少大专院校的学生和教师也随着土改工作队深入农村,参加了许多实际工作,并就农民的阶级成分、经济状 Introduction The 1930s were a period of prosperity for early Chinese sociology, when family studies prevailed. Some works on rural family issues have spread both at home and abroad, both in Chinese and in English. Unfortunately, with the invasion of Japan’s militarism and the outbreak of World War II, formal academic research had to come to a standstill. Soon after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, land reform began in rural China. Many tertiary institutions’ students and teachers also took part in many practical work with the land reform task forces going into the countryside. They also talked about the class composition of peasants, the economic status