1, author profile

Fei Xiaotong (19 10—2005), a famous sociologist, was born in Wujiang, Jiangsu. 1936 went to study in Britain, 1938 received a doctorate in philosophy from London University and returned to China in the same year. He has served as Professor of Yunnan University, Professor of The National SouthWest Associated University, Professor of Tsinghua University and Professor of Sociology of Peking University.

His major works include jiang village economy, Native China, Birth System, State and Society, and Rural Construction. Among them, Native China and Fertility System are representative works of theoretical research on China's traditional culture and rural social structure.

2. Writing background

The book "Native China" was compiled by Mr. Fei Xiaotong in the late 1940s according to the contents of the course handout of Rural Sociology he spoke. The main body of the book is *** 14. Standing in the 1940s, I learned about the local China, which was the grassroots society in China at that time.

3. Writing purpose

As Mr Fei Xiaotong said in the preface of the second edition, the reason why he wrote Native China is to study the characteristics of rural society in China with the help of the platform of "rural sociology".

Three. Content introduction

1, main content

China in the Country is a part of the Lectures on Rural Sociology written by Mr. Fei Xiaotong/KLOC-0 at the National Southwest Associated University and Yunnan University in the late 1940s, including 14 papers: rural nature, rural writing, rural rewriting, difference pattern, maintaining private morality, family, differences between men and women, and the rule of etiquette.