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of Pei Xiao Tong Books, Pamphlets, and Series of Five or More Articles Articles in Chinese Articles in English and Unpublished Materials Glossary Index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