Sociology ⁽³⁾

Both Fei Xiaotong and Xu Zhuoyun are respected sociologists. Peasant Life in China and From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society are Fei's best-known works, while Xu's may be Watching America, Watching China, and Rivers Without End. I have read both scholars' books and…

Over the past few days the news has been roiling about a girl from Chun'an, Qiandao Lake, Zhejiang, who was lured away by two tenants and ultimately murdered; the two tenants then took their own lives. The whole affair is deeply baffling, and all sorts…

Mr. Fei Xiaotong's From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society is my favorite work of sociology and anthropology. Fei studied under the famous anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, the leading figure of the functionalist school of anthropology. This school holds that any cultural phenomenon—whether abstract social…