"This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947. It is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential features of both. Fei shows how these uni ..."
"This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential features of both. Fei shows how these uni ..."
"This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory."
"The International Library of Sociology (ILS) is the most important series of books on sociology ever published. Founded in the 1940s by Karl Mannheim, the series became the forum for pioneering research and theory, marked by comparative approaches and analysis of new disciplines, such as the sociology of youth and culture. Spanning volumes by Parsons, Dickinson and Ossowski, the history of the ILS is the history of modern sociology."
Rural Development in China(1st Edition) Prospect and Retrospect by Hsiao-Tung Fei, XiaotongFei Hardcover, 247 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23959-0, ISBN: 0-226-23959-4
"This collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted field work in Kaixian'gong, a village in Jiangsu province in east China. This village became the subject of his now classic study Peasant Life in China, in which he argued that, because of C ..."
Rural Development in China(1st Edition) Prospect and Retrospect by Hsiao-Tung Fei, XiaotongFei Paperback, 247 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23960-6, ISBN: 0-226-23960-8
"This collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted field work in Kaixian'gong, a village in Jiangsu province in east China. This village became the subject of his now classic study Peasant Life in China, in which he argued that, because of C ..."
"These seven essays on the structure of Chinese society are based on articles contributed by Fei to Chinese newspapers in 1947 and 1948. Six case histories from a study of the gentry by Yung-teh Chow are appended. "The chief interest and charm of this book lie in the fact that it is not directed to the Western reader; these were studies written in Chinese, by an erudite Chinese, for a Chinese public. . . . Mrs. Redfield is to be complime ..."
"These seven essays on the structure of Chinese society are based on articles contributed by Fei to Chinese newspapers in 1947 and 1948. Six case histories from a study of the gentry by Yung-teh Chow are appended."The chief interest and charm of this book lie in the fact that it is not directed to the Western reader; these were studies written in Chinese, by an erudite Chinese, for a Chinese public. . . . Mrs. Redfield is to be complimen ..."
From the Soil The Foundations of Chinese Society, a Translation of FeiXiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo by XiaotongFei, Wang Zheng Digital, 176 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91248-9, ISBN: 0-520-91248-9
"If a Western friend writes to you saying that he will "bring his family" to visit you, you know very well who will be coming with ... In China, we often see the sentence "The whole family will come" (hedi guanglin), but few people can tell what family ..."
"This volume comprises some twenty articles, speeches and conversations of Fei Xiaotong from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Their central connecting theme is how civilizations could co-exist against a backdrop of rapid globalization. Fei proposes his concept of “cultural self-awareness,” summarized in the axiom “each appreciates his own best, appreciates the best of others, all appreciate the best together for the greater harmony of ..."
"This volume comprises some twenty articles, speeches and conversations of Fei Xiaotong from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Their central connecting theme is how civilizations could co-exist against a backdrop of rapid globalization. Fei proposes his concept of “cultural self-awareness,” summarized in the axiom “each appreciates his own best, appreciates the best of others, all appreciate the best together for the greater harmony of ..."
Native China by Fei Xiao Tong, XiaotongFei Paperback, 199 Pages, Published 2012 by Foreign Languages Teaching And Research Press ISBN-13: 978-7-5135-2117-8, ISBN: 7-5135-2117-4
"One of Chinas finest sociologists and anthropologists, Fei Xiaotong works on these subjects were instrumental in laying a solid foundation for the development of sociological and anthropological studies in China, as well as in introducing social and cultural phenomena of China to the international community."
Xiang tu Zhongguo Sheng yu zhi du (Bei da ming jia ming zhu wen cong) (Mandarin Chinese Edition) by XiaotongFei, Fei Xiao Tong Paperback, 347 Pages, Published 1998 by Jing Xiao Zhe Xin Hua Shu Dian ISBN-13: 978-7-301-03724-9, ISBN: 7-301-03724-4
China Academic Library Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness by XiaotongFei 268 Pages, Published 2015 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-3-662-46648-3, ISBN: 3-662-46648-1
"In his early years, he advocated the study of closed communities so as to identify
their cultural functions. By the end of the 1930s, he had completed his
monumental works on the indigenous peoples of the Western Pacific Islands.
Subsequently, he visited the colonies in eastern and southern Africa and
7Malinowski, Bronislaw. The Dynamics of Culture Change. Connecticut: Yale
University Press, 1945. saw a continent in the throes of h ..."
Fang cao yin yin Tian ye bi ji xuan lu (Mandarin Chinese Edition) by XiaotongFei 248 Pages, Published 1999 by Jing Xiao Xin Hua Shu Dia ISBN-13: 978-7-80603-380-7, ISBN: 7-80603-380-7