From the soil, the foundations of Chinese society : a translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, with an introduction and epilogue / by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng.

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Fei, Xiaotong

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Chinese Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 160 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780520912489
0520912489
0585104360
9780585104362

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Xiang tu Zhongguo. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: From the soil, the foundations of Chinese society.DDC classification:

306/.0951 20

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HN733.5 .F4513 1992eb

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Fei Xiaotong and the Beginnings of a Chinese Sociology; 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 NecessityEpilogue: Sociology and the Reconstructionof Rural China; Glossary; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; P; Q; R; S; T; W; X; Y; Z; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; X; Y; Z.

Summary: 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 ac.

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Translation of: Xiang tu Zhongguo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 ac.

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