Taitou, Shandong

Taitou (simplified Chinese: 台头镇; traditional Chinese: 台頭鎮; pinyin: Táitóu Zhèn) is a town of around 58,000 people in the north of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Located in the northwest of Weifang City, it is under the administration of the county-level city of Shouguang City, 23 kilometres (14 mi) to the southeast, and has an area of 142 square kilometres (55 sq mi). Within the town are 42 administrative villages.

Taitou 台头镇
Town
Taitou Location in Shandong
Coordinates: 37°01′48″N 118°38′10″E
Country	China
Province	Shandong
Prefecture-level city	Weifang
County-level city	Shouguang
Area [1]
• Total	142 km^2 (55 sq mi)
Elevation	4.3 m (14 ft)
Population  (2006)[1]
• Total	58,000
• Density	410/km^2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

In 1958, Taitou was created as a people's commune, then changed to a town in 1984. In 2000 it absorbed the town of Niutou (牛头镇).

Taitou was the site of Martin C. Yang's ethnography A Chinese Village: Taitou, Shantung Province (1945).

References

1. 台头镇 (in Chinese). XZQH.org. Archived from the original on 2011-08-30. Retrieved 2011-06-26.

Further reading

• Yang, Martin C. (2013). A Chinese Village. Volume 1 of International library of sociology. Sociology of East Asia (reprint ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-1136233975. Retrieved 24 April 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)