Extending the Traditional Boundaries of Sociology

Abstract

Now that I am over 90 years old, I have to admit that I am really getting on. Though my body and limbs no longer do my bidding, my mind still seems capable of reasoning, and it seems to me that we Chinese have accumulated many valuable things over the thousands of years of our history. Now, in a time of world turmoil, it is clear that some kind of change and innovation is urgently needed, and so my mind has been preoccupied with many issues I had previously never thought about. The conversations and discussions I have had with colleagues and students about these topics have been recorded and transcribed by them and, after my editing, are now available for others to read.