Rural Development in China: Prospect and Retrospect

by Hsiao-tung Fei

This collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted field work in Kaixian'gong, a village in Jiangsu province in east China. This village became the subject of his now classic study Peasant Life in China, in which he argued that, because of China's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226239608
• ISBN13: 9780226239606
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"