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Cultural Tradition and Innovation

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Fei: I have read the manuscript of your book Tradition and Change. It is excellent and I am sure there will be similar achievements in your future research. As I read it, I was reminded of many things. Let me tell you briefly about them.

From a transcript of the recorded conversation with Fang Lili, published in Art Research (in Chinese, Yishu yanjiu, 《艺术研究》), 2000.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Fang Lili, Tradition and Change (in Chinese, Chuantong yu bianqian, 《传统与变迁》), Nanchang: Jiangxi People’s Publishing House, 2000.

  2. 2.

    Short for “May 7th Cadre School,” named after Mao Zedong’s May 7th 1966 Directive on the need for cadres to maintain close links with ordinary people. Starting in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), all government institutions, research, and educational organizations established farms to which their staff were sent, to work in the fields, perform other kinds of physical labor, and develop closer ties with the local farmers. In fact, this became a kind of “punishment” for intellectuals, often lasting several years. Later it became a rotational system for all staff. The May 7th Cadre Schools were abolished in 1979.

  3. 3.

    Fei Xiaotong, From the Soil, University of California Press, 1992.

  4. 4.

    The Asian Financial Crisis began in Thailand in 1997 and swept through many Asian countries. Currencies were devalued, stock markets collapsed, trade dropped sharply, and several countries neared economic bankruptcy. The crisis ended in 1999.

  5. 5.

    Fang Lili, Folk Kilns of Jingdezhen (in Chinese, Jingdezhen minyao, 《景德镇民窑》), Beijing: People‘s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2002.

  6. 6.

    Fei Xiaotong, “On Re-reading the Preface of ‘Peasant Life in China’” (in Chinese, Chongdu Jiangcun jingji xuyan, 《重读<江村经济·序言>》), in Peking University Journal, vol. 4, 1996.

  7. 7.

    Ibid.

  8. 8.

    Ibid.

  9. 9.

    Fei Xiaotong, in collaboration with Paul Cooper and Margaret Park Redfield, University of Chicago Press, 1945. Chinese language version Yunnan San Cun (《云南三村》), translated by Fei Xiaotong in collaboration with Zhang Zhiyi, Tianjin People’s Press, 1990.

  10. 10.

    In Chinese, Zhongguo wenming qiyuan xin tan (《中国文明起源新探》), Beijing: Commercial Press, 1997.

  11. 11.

    See Chap. 5.

  12. 12.

    Incorporated into Tsinghua University in 1999.

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Fei, X. (2015). Cultural Tradition and Innovation. In: Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness. China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46648-3_21

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