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Recently, he read the academic master of one of the founders of Chinese sociology and anthropology--Mr Fei Xiaotong's "Hometown China". This book is not a description of the specific society, but some of the concepts extracted from the specific society. I had a little knowledge of these during the reading period, and I benefited greatly from the 14 articles of Master Fei Xiaotong.

In the preface to the old "hometown China", written in Mr. Fei Xiaotong's book, I said, "I was teaching at the university, and I didn't like to use the existing textbooks to try to use the contacts with the young students to explore some of the topics that I felt were meaningful." At that time Young, a little colts of the aggressive, without any scruple to open up some people have not yet rushed the field of knowledge. "Let me understand that Mr. Fisher is a teacher who attaches great importance to the development of meaningful subjects, and I think such lessons must be very interesting." This is consistent with his emphasis on field research methods, the same is not so rigid, this is perhaps the "rural China" the book is so close to life, the important reason for lively and interesting.

In its first "native color" I understand that from the grass-roots perspective, Chinese society is the local nature. Those who are called Hicks, is the grassroots of Chinese society, urban people with rustic to despise the country, but in the countryside, "soil" is their Lingen. The book also gives his mother when he first went abroad gave a package of soil used to "cure" the suffering of the acclimatized and homesickness. This reminds me of the previous reading of the article, often there are students before leaving the elder in the temple to take incense burner tembusu to bless the outside all safe. Such an easy-to-understand example makes me understand the close link between "soil" and the grassroots of Chinese society. It is no wonder that Chinese society has become a society born and killed in China. Also let me understand why in the history of countless heroes merry in the past must be has attracted droves reason.

"Familiarity is a feeling of intimacy that occurs in time, in many ways, in frequent contact," Mr Levy says. This feeling is the result of countless times of small friction in the Tao refining. ”。 Therefore, people in the local society are very familiar with each other. However, compared with the modern society composed of strangers, it is impossible to cope with the custom of the local society. So, the rustic became a curse of the word, "township" is no longer the place to homecoming.

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