Fei Xiaotong Studies, Vol. II, English edition

The year 2016 is another significant year for honouring Professor Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), because it is the 80th anniversary of his fieldwork in Kaixiangong Village. The Part II of Fei Xiaotong Studies consists of articles by authors from the UK, Japan, USA, Germany, China and Hong Kong. The main articles focus on Fei Xiaotong and related studies with China in comparative perspective. It also includes a reflective article which demonstrated a process of globalization Chinese sociology, and a predictive article which provides vision of world anthropology with China and other countries as participants. Four appendices have been included in this book, as previous issue, there are more pieces of the innovative ‘Chinese Social Science’ – a branch of ‘Chinese for Specific Purposes’ (CSP), written by UK-based Chinese teaching and translation experts.  A dialogue and comments amongst scholars from American, UK/China and Germany Chinese scholars exemplified Fei Xiaotong’s case for how can his work making contributions to globalization of China’s sociology and anthropology.

The UK-based Global China Press (GCP) is the first publisher specializing in dual language publications that focus on Chinese perspectives of the world and human knowledge and non-Chinese perspectives of China in a global context. The co-publisher of the present volume, New World Press (NWP), was founded in 1951, and is a member of the China International Publishing Group (CIPG). It publishes multilingual books on social sciences, literature, management and other disciplines that serve to introduce China to the world. As early as the 1980s, NWP published the China Study series in English, covering China’s economy, politics, ethnicity, population, history, sociology and anthropology, and including Fei Xiaotong’s Toward a People’s Anthropology (1981), Chinese Village Close-Up (1982) and Small Towns in China (1986). NWP is republishing the China Study series jointly with GCP, supplemented by new titles.

About the Editors

Stephan Feuchtwang is Emeritus Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Founding Director of the China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Xiangqun Chang is Director of CCPN Global, Editor of Journal of China in Comparative Perspective (JCCP), and Chief Editor of Global China Press. She is also Honorary Professor at University College London, UK, and holder of several professorships and senior fellowships at Peking, Renmin, Fudan and Sun Yat-sen universities in China.

ZHOU Daming is Professor of the School of Anthropology and Sociology, Director of the Ethnic Group Study Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, China, and Vice-president of the China Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (UAES).