From the soil, the foundations of Chinese society : a translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, with an introduction and epilogue
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From the soil, the foundations of Chinese society : a translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, with an introduction and epilogue
University of California Press, c1992
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Hsiang tʿu Chung-kuo
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Hsiang tʿu Chung-kuo
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Translation of: Hsiang tʿu Chung-kuo
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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Description
This text by Fei Xiaotong, one of China's finest social scientists, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. "From the Soil" describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential features of both. Fei shows how these unique features reflect and are reflected in the moral and ethical characters of people in these societies. This book aims to be both succinct and accessible. Now in an English-language edition, it could have a wide impact on Western social theorists. Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng's translation captures Fei's straightforward style of writing. Their introduction describes Fei's education and career as a sociologist, the fate of his writings on and off the Mainland, and the sociological significance of his analysis. The translators' epilogue highlights the social reforms for China that Fei drew from his analysis and advocated in a companion text written in the same period.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520077966
Description
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 unique features reflect and are reflected in the moral and ethical characters of people in these societies. This profound, challenging book is both succinct and accessible. In its first complete English-language edition, it is likely to have a wide impact on Western social theorists. Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng's translation captures Fei's jargonless, straightforward style of writing. Their introduction describes Fei's education and career as a sociologist, the fate of his writings on and off the Mainland, and the sociological significance of his analysis. The translators' epilogue highlights the social reforms for China that Fei drew from his analysis and advocated in a companion text written in the same period.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Fei Xiaotong and the Beginnings
of a Chinese Sociology, by Gary G. Hamilton
and Wang Zheng
1. Special Characteristics of Rural Society
2. Bringing Literacy to the Countryside
3* More Thoughts on Bringing Literacy to
the Countryside
4* Chaxugeju: The Differential Mode of Association
5* The Morality of Personal Relationships
6. Patrilineages
7* "Between Men and Women, There Are
Only Differences"
8. A Rule of Ritual
9* A Society without Litigation
10. An Inactive Government
11. Rule by Elders
12. Consanguinity and Regionalism
13. Separating Names from Reality
14. From Desire to Necessity
Epilogue: Sociology and the Reconstruction
of Rural China, by Gary G. Hamilton and
WangZheng
Glossary
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"