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This biographical study of one of China's leading social scientists follows his history from birth until the present moment, and includes a bibliography of his books and articles. Trained in London under Malinowski, Fei Xiaotong achieved eminence in the 1930s and 1940s for his pioneering studies of Chinese peasant life and for his popular articles, which stirred a wide audience in China to an awareness of social and political problems. A non-Marxist who came to sympathize with the Communists, Fei was gradually constrained in his activities after the Revolution until, in the 1950s, a massive propaganda campaign vilified him as a bourgeois rightist intellectual. Almost twenty years of silence and disgrace followed. Only recently, following the death of Mao, has Fei suddenly reemerged as a leader in the effort to revitalize the social sciences in China.
The story of Fei's life told here is, in a sense, the story of Westernized intellectuals in China at a time of peasant revolution. His writings enunciate the views of a sensitive observer of Chinese and Western society during that period of dramatic change.
Preface
Family Background and Early Schooling
Family and Early Years in Wujiang and Suzhou
Missionary Schools: Suzhou and Yanjing
Fei Xiaotong as a Man
Education in Sociology and Anthropology
Sociology at Yanjing
Park and Fei's Rejection of Library Research
Anthropology at Qinghua: Shirokogoroff
London and Malinowski
Fei as a Functionalist: Basic ideas about Society
Field Studies: Guangxi, Kaixiangong, Yunnan
Marriage and Field Work in Guangxi, 1935
Peasant Life in Kaixiangong, 1936
Lu-cun, Yunnan, 1938-1939
The Significance of Fei's Community Studies
Fei as a Teacher: the Yunnan Research Station, 1939-1946
A Chinese Anthropologist Looks at the United States
Visit to the United States, 1943-1944
Changing Perceptions of American Culture
Critic of American Policies, 1947-1948
Urban Industry
Plaintiff for the Chinese Peasants
Fei as a Popular Writer
Rural China's Cultural Patterns
The Gentry and Social Erosion
Reform Proposals: Rural Industrialization
Politics, 1945-1948
Kunming, 1945-1946
Second Visit to England, 1946-1947
Political Ideals: Democracy and Socialism
Fei and the Communists Before 1949
The Bourgeois Intellectual in the People's Republic
Early Enthusiasm, 1949-1950
National Minorities Work, 1950-1956
The Hundred Flowers and After
Intellectuals and Politics
Return to Sociology and Kaixiangong
The Anti-Rightist Movement, 1957-1958
Epilogue: Return of the Hundred Flowers
Postcript, March 1981
Notes
Annotated Bibliography of the Works of Pei Xiao Tong
Books, Pamphlets, and Series of Five or More Articles
Articles in Chinese
Articles in English and Unpublished Materials
Glossary
Index
Overview
This biographical study of one of China's leading social scientists follows his history from birth until the present moment, and includes a bibliography of his books and articles. Trained in London under Malinowski, Fei Xiaotong achieved eminence in the 1930s and 1940s for his pioneering studies of Chinese peasant life and for his popular articles, which stirred a wide audience in China to an awareness of social and political problems. A non-Marxist who came to sympathize with the Communists, Fei was gradually ...