Table of Content
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of Pei Xiao Tong Books, Pamphlets, and Series of Five or More Articles Articles in Chinese Articles in English and Unpublished Materials Glossary Index