This book offers a biographical, intellectual and academic history of sociology in the late Qing and Republic of China period. The 46 sociologists featured in this volume are chosen from the pantheon of notable scholars who labored in this burgeoning field. Each of the 46 chapters is devoted to introducing one sociologist. Every chapter begins with a short biography that sheds light on how one sociologist became the scholar they were and earned their place in not only sociology, but also, for some of them, other fields in the social sciences and the humanities. This is followed by a review and analysis of the representative works by this sociologist, and how those laid the foundation for and contributed to the early development of a particular field of research in sociology as we know it today. The book weaves together a history of this academic discipline in China over those turbulent decades that organically combines personal details, methodological development, institutional changes and also larger social, economic and intellectual trends.
Li Dazhao and the sociology of historical materialism.- Qu Qiubai and
the sociology of historical materialism.- Li Da and An Outline of Sociology.-
Wang Yanan and his study of bureaucratic politics.- Chen Hansheng and the
practice of economic and social surveys.- Xue Muqiao and the debate on the
nature of Chinese rural society.- Feng Hefa and rural economic and social
research.- Ma Yinchu and the new population theory.- Liang Shumings rural
reconstruction theory and practice.- Tao Menghe and social surveys in China.-
Yan Yangchu and mass education.- Li Jinghan and the Ding County survey.- Wu
Jingchao and the theory of a helping hand from the cities.- Li Shuqing and
Chinese Society in the Midst of Transformation.- Chen Xujing and The Way Out
for Chinese Culture.- Wu Wenzao and the Sinicization of sociology.- Fei
Xiaotongs path of sociology.- Lin Yaohua and The Golden Wing.- Yang Maochun
and rural studies.- Yang Qingkun and religion in Chinese society.- Francis
L.K. Hsu and his study of psychological anthropology.- Zhang Zhiyi and his
study of rural industry.- Tian Rukang and his study of people in the border
regions.- Shi Guoheng and early study of Chinese enterprises.- Zhao Chengxin
and the community study.- Sun Benwen and The Principles of Sociology.- Wu
Zelin and Social Restraints.- Leonard S. Hsu and Outline of Population
Theory.- Chen Da and his study of the Chinese population and labor.- Yan
Xinzhe and his research on social undertaking and the rural population.- Ke
Xiangfeng and his study of poverty.- Yan Jingyao and his research on crime.-
Yang Kaidao and his rural society study and practice.- Pan Guangdan and his
study of eugenics.- Yang Kun and his study of ethnology and mythology.- Li
Anzhai and his study of social etiquette.- Qu Tongzu and Chinese Law and
Society.- Lei Haizong and Chinese cultural studies.- Lin Tongjis historical
view of cultural morphology.- Xie Guozhen and his work on the literati
association and faction.- Luo Xianglin and Hakka Studies.- Fu Zhenlun and his
study of Chinese local records.- Chen Dongyuan and his study of the history
of Chinese women's life.- Quan Hansheng and his research on Chinas guild
system.- Fu Yiling and Studies on the Economic History of Fujians Tenant
Farmers.- Yan Zhongping and The Development of Chinas Cotton Industry.
Li Peilin is Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Vice President of the Chinese Sociological Association, and Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Studies. He received his masters degree from Université de Lyon in 1984 and Ph.D. from Paris-Sorbonne in 1987. He has published extensively on sociology in China, and his major works are Social Stratification in China, Social Conflict and Class Consciousness, Social Transformation and Chinese Experiences, etc.
Qu Jingdong is associate dean of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, professor of the Department of Sociology, Pekinig University, and serves as Ph.D. supervisor. Qus research interests include history of Western social thoughts, history of Chinese sociology and organizational sociology. Qu is the author of Freedom and Education: Reading Two Philosophical Texts on Education of John Locke and Jean-Jarques Rousseau(2019) and others.
Yang Yabin is professor of Institution of Society, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), director of China United Front Theory Research Association, and serves as deputy president of Beijing Sociological Association. Yangs research interests include religious and society and history of Chinese sociology. Yang is the author of Modern Chinese Sociology(2001) and others.
