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I would like to thank the top administrators of Peking University for letting me listen in on this meeting. I came because I am eager to see how these young people I have been training (at the Institute of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Peking University) are doing.
Statement at Peking University at a meeting of key academic departments.
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In Chinese, Beida xiaozhang he Zhongguo wenhua (《北大校长和中国文化》), Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 1988.
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1868–1940, early revolutionary, political activist, educator; first minister of education of the Republic of China; chancellor of Beijing University from 1916 to 1927; responsible for major reforms in academia.
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1882–1982, economist, educator, and demographer.
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Modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense, and science and technology.
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Period when Chinese intellectuals intensely examined and critiqued traditional culture and proposed following Mr. De (democracy) and Mr. Sai (science) as the way to save China.
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Abbreviation for the Zhongguo minzhu tongmeng (Chinese Democratic Alliance Party), composed mostly of senior educators.
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Now an appendix in Peasant Life in China—A Field Study of Country Life in the Yangtze Valley (Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2010).
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In Chinese, Hong lou meng, 《红楼梦》. One of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, written by Cao Xueqin (1715–1763?), about the rise and fall of a prominent family in the mid-Qing dynasty (1644–1911).
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In Chinese, Xi you ji, 《西游记》. One of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, written in the sixteenth century, authorship uncertain. It is a fictionalized, allegorical account of the true journey to India of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang in the Tang dynasty (618–907). He is helped and protected by mythical “disciples,” including Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, who has magical powers.
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1901–1985, sociologist, anthropologist, ethnic studies scholar, and one of the earliest proponents of and researchers in a “Chinese” school of sociology, anthropology, and ethnic studies.
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Fei, X. (2015). Pioneering a New Academic Trend. In: Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness. China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46648-3_18
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