ABSTRACT
Village leaders can be divided into the official and the lay leaders. Official leaders are elected by the villagers or appointed by the local or county government. They have specific duties to perform and are supposed to function not according to their own option but according to the fixed regulations. Under the old system there were four official leaders in a village of any size: the she-chang, the chwang-chang, the hsiang-yueh, and the ti-fang.
