market town

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Finally, strategies about ancient market-town's protection and development were focused on.
最后有针对性的提出了古集镇保护与发展的策略。
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The ancient market-town of southwest in Hubei is a physical carrier, where the local residents lived for generations and it represents the unique culture in southwest region.
鄂西南地区的古集镇是当地居民世代生息繁衍的物质载体，同时也体现了鄂西南地区独特的地域文化和民族文化。
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Market-town (Jizheng) is the connection between city and counties, the cell organization of a society, which is the product of the development of political system and commercial economy.
集镇是连接城市和广大乡村的桥梁，是社会最基本的细胞组织，是政治制度和商品经济发展到一定阶段的产物。

But the small market-town is perceived as a den of sin and iniquity.
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a small town in the countryside, especially in Europe, that has a regular market and acts as a business centre for surrounding farms and villages

A market town is a town, especially in a country area, that has or used to have a market in it.

乡镇墟市
Centering on west Fujian Province in late Qing Dynasty and the Republic ofChina(1912-1949), this paper analyzes market town and civil beliefs using method ofhistorical anthropology.
本文以清末民国的闽西为研究中心，用历史人类学的方法分析与探讨了乡镇墟市与民间信仰问题。
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