Inside a Villager's House

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.

• 1972-03-29

• MacKinnon, Stephen R.

• Shashiyu Cun (China)
• Zunhua Xian (China)

• Shashiyu sheng chan da dui (Zunhua Xian, China)

• Beds
• Boys
• Communes (China)
• Country life
• Dwellings
• Housing, Rural
• Peasants
• Rural conditions

• image

Shared Shelf: 15073762

Online exhibit

• CCAS Trips to China in the Early 1970s

• MacKinnon, Stephen R.

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