The View Of Fei Xiao-tong's Research On The Change Of Modern China Social Life

The socail life is the basic field which the renowned socail anthropologist Fei xiao-tong researches,especially modern China socail life.He researches the basic field,which reflects his characteristic of Specific background,problem awareness,subject characteristics and personal academic preference.we research theses,which contributes to recognizing Fei xiao-tong'sacademic contribution as well as having reference for study of Social History.Fei xiao-tong was born in Jiangnan gentry family and his geting Old and new and family education opened his perspective of knowledge.Influence of Anthropology forces him to pay more attention to ordinary people's life and Fei xiao-tong'high cultural self-awareness makes him get the insight of modern China socail life.It shows Fei xiao-tong's traditional cultural foundation and overall understanding cultural situation of the world.Fei xiao-tong faced the facts that modern China sharply changed and had real life problems.Fei xiao-tong aspired to seek the way forward for social development,trace to the historical crux of socail problem and reveal law of changes of social life,which displayed academic Mission of Anthropology.In Fei xiao-tong's view,Corruption and incompetence,Technological backwardness,and the high rate of illiteracy resulted from social structure,economy of scarcity and Confucianism interacting.the ordinary social reform can't solve these problems so that the Social Development Perspective emerges as the times require.According to this theory,the important prospect for China's rural society is the industrialization which reforms the technology and organization.The unenlightened ethnic groups have the growth opportunities nothing but exchange and study between different cultures.Fei xiao-tong's study on the lives of the people begins with the observation of Chinese peasant communities,which shows the clear life space consciousness of Social anthropologists.At last,he find the virtual method which researches the enormous Chinese daily life at the cost of decades of works.Fei xiao-tong believes that the study on case of different types of peasant communities for HUA LAN YAO,JIANG COUNTRY and LU COUNTRY will gradually promote the cognition of overall Chinese society.Fei Xiao-tong showed the modern chinese people's details of life by in-depth interview In the daily lives of many space,social ritual,Information on oral tradition and material culture geting by participant observation,systematic information on the general history,and document of Confucian classics,official history,chorography and official statistics.The field research information,general history and historical documents display the material applied skill of oriented Anthropology and history.Fei xiao-tong's research on modern Chinese life foces on the change of culture trait,production of social relations and the variation of socail life.Modern traffic and values of the change of culture trait,Self-build relation in modern times,and the result of cultural transmission were inevitably constrained by traditional Chinese social structure during this period.As population movement takes place between the city and country in modern China,the community gradually was changed by a combination of blood into a geopolitical combination,family kinship was adjusted by the new form,young people generally pursued marriage based on the love,traditional agricultural society quietly transformated into a modern industrial society and at the same time,the decline of handicraft and social status of labour become a significant social problem in China.Fei Xiao-tong thinks that external power and local autonomy plan ara the basic ways to change in modern society.Accumulation of the above focus resulted from Fei Xiao-tong's keen awareness of issues.As a functionalism anthropologist,Fei Xiao-tong opposed the "Stepped" historical view of the center of the West.He aspired to enrich the people and paid special attention to China's rural society on the brink of the civilized world so that he put forward a range of possible options of rural industrialization.Consequently,age concern,the discipline of caring and individual academic interest jointly resulted in Fei Xiao-tong's question consciousnes.As to theoretical tools,functionalism anthropologist is good at researching the structure of social life and Fei Xiao-tong specially emphasized on the cultural historicity association with sociality.His researching modern China social life can't depart from social and historical background of its longue duree,which shows the view of the history of everyday life.This study on the life has not only the concrete social description,but also attach importance to abstraction of the general principle;it notes the live history of still having an effect on actual life as well as outline of dynamic evolution of life;it both has researcher's rational judgment and daily logic of temporality,locality and party.The functionism cultural perspective,live view of history and epistemology of emics and etic approach become Fei Xiao-tong's unique theoretical tools of research on modern Chinese life.Based on the research of modern Chinese social history,we study on Fei Xiao-tong's view of modern Chinese social life,and we recognize Fei Xiao-tong's special contribution of chinese modernization as well as understand the practical directive value of modern Chinese social development.the apporach of functionalism anthropologist research has important methodology reference signification of Chinese Social History Research.