China's method of political research in the countryside has two main sources: Chinese traditional methods of survey research and western research methods of humanities and social science.In the early 1980s,Chinese rural political researchers mainly used the traditional methods,regarding the problems as the guidance;in 90s,many scholars borrowed ideas from the western mature field research method,so their studies began to be guided by theories;in the prophase of the 21st century,two methodology began to merge,integrate.The integration furthered the comprehensive advancement of Chinese empirical...