Who are the reading objects and research methods of local China?

Who is the reading target of Native China? The research methods are as follows:

China in the Country takes the social structure of rural society in China as the research object, which belongs to "comparative study".

Native China is a sociological work by Fei Xiaotong, a contemporary sociologist, taking the rural areas of China as the research object. It was first published in 1948, which originated from the content of "Rural Sociology" taught by the author at National Southwest Associated University and Yunnan University in the late 1940s. At that time, the author serialized 14 articles according to the Century Review, and the local China was composed of these contents.

The book Native China consists of 14 articles. The author summarizes and analyzes the main features of the grass-roots society in China with simple and popular language, and comprehensively shows the features of the grass-roots society in China, involving the humanistic environment, traditional social structure, power distribution, moral system, legal ceremony, blood geography and other aspects of the local society. It is recognized by academic circles as one of the important representatives of theoretical research on traditional culture and social structure of rural society in China.

Author related?

Fei Xiaotong is a sociologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and social activist from Wujiang, Jiangsu (now Wujiang District, Suzhou). He is the vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Seventh and Eighth NPC, and the vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Sixth China People's Political Consultative Conference. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Economics and Politics of University of London, was elected as an academician of the School of Economics and Politics of University of London, and won the United Nations Encyclopedia Award with 1988.

He devoted his life to ethnology, sociology, anthropology and other research, and wrote millions of words of works, known as one of the founders of sociology and anthropology in China.