From the Soil The Foundations of Chinese Society

Name: From the Soil The Foundations of Chinese Society
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ISBN: 9780520077966

ISBN-10: 0520077962

ISBN-13: 9780520077966

Edition: 1993

Authors: Xiaotong Fei, Gary G. Hamilton, Wang Zheng

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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 Soildescribes 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…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/28/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction: Fei Xiaotong and the Beginnings of a Chinese Sociology




Special Characteristics of Rural Society



Bringing Literary to the Countryside



More Thoughts on Bringing Literary to the Countryside



Chaxugeju: The Differential Mode of Association



The Morality of Personal Relationships



Patrilineages



"Between Men and Women, There Are Only Differences"



A Rule of Ritual



A Society without Litigation



An Inactive Government



Rule by Elders



Consanguinity and Regionalism



Separating Names from Reality



From Desire to Necessity


Epilogue: Sociology and the Reconstruction of Rural China



Glossary


Index