Taitou, Shandong


Taitou 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, to the southeast, and has an area of. Within the town are 42 administrative villages.
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.
Taitou was the site of Martin C. Yang's ethnography A Chinese Village: Taitou, Shantung Province.