Compiled from the following sources:
Special biographic research
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006
Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005
Revision History:
Biography Revised: 4/15/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/19/2007
Fei Xiaotong 费孝通
Honorary Chairman of the 8th Central Committee of China Democratic League, Honorary President of the Chinese Overseas Friendship
Born: 1910
Biography Highlight
Fei Xiaotong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wujiang County, Jiangsu Province. He was born in 1910 and studied at Yanjing and Qinghua Universities.
Fei is an academic who has written on topics including Chinese peasant life, countryside societies, rural economies, countryside construction and ethnic minorities. After studying at Yanjing and Qinhua Universities in the early 1930s, Fei traveled to England where he studied with Bronislaw Malinowski and wrote the book "Peasant Life in China." This book brought him a doctorate from London University, and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He returned to China in 1939 and became a professor at several universities.
In the 1950s, Fei helped found the Central Institute for Ethnic Minorities and became a professor researching and teaching about ethnic minorities. In 1957, Fei was suspended from his academic activities after being stigmatized as a "rightist." For the next 20 years, he translated works by foreign authors.
Since 1978, Fei has written proposals on the development of the Yellow River Delta and Shanghai economic revitalization. He has also won many international honors. In 1987, he became an honorary fellow at the Royal Anthropological Institute in Great Britain. In 1980, he won the Malinowski Award for applied anthropology. In 1981, he was awarded the Thomas H. Huxley Memorial Medal for anthropology.
Recent Career Data
1997— |
Honorary President, China Overseas Friendship Association |
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1996— |
Honorary Chairman, China Democratic League |
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1995 |
Honorary Professor, Tongji University Shanghai Municipality |
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1993—1998 |
Deputy, 8th NPC |
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1993—1998 |
Vice-Chairman, 8th Standing Committee of the NPC |
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1992—1996 |
Chairman, China Democratic League |
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1988—1993 |
Vice-Chairman, 7th Standing Committee of the NPC |
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1988—1993 |
Deputy, 7th NPC |
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1983—1988 |
Vice-Chairman, 6th CPPCC, National Committee |
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1982 |
Honorary Academician, University of London, Political Economy College United Kingdom, London |
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