ABSTRACT
One of the purposes of chapter two was to show that, on average, the twenty-three Ganglong villages were also average in another sense: in comparison with nearby villages and counties, they had no particular advantage in agriculture, sidelines or industry; they neither produced much more nor much less than the overall Jinghai, Qingxian or even Hebei averages, nor were they outstanding in any other definable way over the past forty-odd years. While these villages understandably have many points in common, this chapter will begin to differentiate them, using both basic quantitative data and ethnographic information to highlight how much the villages today actually do differ from each other.
