How to treat Fei Xiaotong's Native China

Native China is one of Mr Fei Xiaotong's works on China's traditional grass-roots society-countryside. This book comprehensively shows the main features of grass-roots society in China.

Native China is a consulting report on the national conditions of pre-modern China. After 37 years of wind and rain, it still causes people's thinking again with strong reality. The concept of "ritual order" and its "differential order pattern" put forward in the book are based on folk traditional customs and promoted to a series of institutional social management models. As a blueprint for governing the country, it has been highly praised by sages of past dynasties. It is an important way to understand the national conditions of pre-modern China and cut into the traditional cultural characteristics of China to summarize the local China in the order of ceremony.

This is a book about social life. Mr. Fei believes that he dissected the "internal organs" of the village and regarded the village as a life operation system. Throughout the book, readers can feel the strong local flavor. According to the author's thinking, we can get a glimpse of the grass-roots society in China. Although times have changed, the author's perspective and method of observing society are still full of vitality and worth learning.