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Fei: This past spring, a new National People’s Congress began a new term, and I retired from my official post. However, I have not retired from work yet. You too have now reached retirement age, so we are in the same situation. I think I have a couple of more years to live, and so as old friends, I hope we can use this meeting to discuss what we could do in the future.
Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Dean of the Institute of Humanities and Sociology, Tsinghua University, Taiwan.
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In Chinese, Congshi qiuzhilu (《从实求知录》), Beijing: Peking University Press, 1998.
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1898–1990, educator and specialist in ethnic studies, did frequent fieldwork in the minority areas of southwest China, and advocated establishing a museum of ethnic minority peoples.
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A scholarship program funded by Boxer Rebellion indemnity money paid to the United States that provided for Chinese students to study in the United States.
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1864–1944, prominent American sociologist, founder of the Chicago School. Park focused on urban society and race relations in the United States and developed the method of participant observation later used extensively in anthropology and sociology. He taught at Beijing University for a short time where Fei studied with him.
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The civil service examination system in Imperial China to select candidates for the state bureaucracy.
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1853–1926, educator, businessman, and politician. He was one of the first to set up cotton-textile factories in China, established a technical school, and studied how to improve cotton varieties and cultivation techniques.
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R.D. Arkush, Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China (Harvard East Asian Monographs), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.
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1915–1989, one of the second generation of leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. He was General Secretary of the Party from 1981 to 1987.
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Initiated in 1958, the people’s communes were based on the collective ownership of land and centralized agricultural production. They were responsible for the sale of their produce. Peasants were compensated in the form of work points according to how much they worked and had no control over what they planted. The communes were disbanded in 1980.
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A system of agricultural production in which the land, planning, accounting, and distribution remain under collective control, but the responsibility for planting, certain herding, and sideline occupations is given over to individual households in the form of quotas. Anything produced in excess is rewarded, while unfulfilled quotas must be compensated.
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A principle formulated by Deng Xiaoping, leader of the Chinese Communist Party, with the aim of peacefully reuniting China with certain regions having a different political system. These would become Special Administrative Regions and would retain their established social systems. Originally proposed to resolve relations with Taiwan, the principle has been implemented in the 1990s, when sovereignty over Hong Kong and Macau reverted to the People’s Republic of China.
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At 11:30 pm on June 30, 1997, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland formerly handed over jurisdiction of the colony of Hong Kong to the central government of the People’s Republic of China. Starting from July 1, 1997, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of China, in accordance with the terms of the “Joint Declaration” signed by the two governments in 1984. The region is governed by a chief administrative officer.
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The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 began in Thailand and swept through all the countries of Southeast and East Asia, affecting in varying degrees their stock markets, currencies, and capital assets. Most countries devalued their currencies, and some nearly went bankrupt.
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BC 145–133. Historian and writer of the Western Han dynasty (BC 206–223 AD). He compiled The Records of the Historian, the first comprehensive history of China, covering 3,000 years from the mythical kings of antiquity up to BC 122 of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han.
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In Chinese, Qinghua ren de yidai fengsao (《清华人的一代风骚》), Dushu, 1991, no. 1. This article is dedicated to Tang Peisong (1903–2001), plant physiologist and biochemist, founder of plant physiology in China.
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Fei, X. (2015). Chinese Culture and Social Anthropology in the New Century—A Conversation Between Fei Xiaotong and Li Yiyuan. In: Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness. China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46648-3_17
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