China's Gentry: Essays in Rural-Urban Relations

Edited upon Fei's dictation in English, these succinct chapters are a general description of the Chinese rural area and overall society and an extension of Fei's early fieldwork researches;
There are two interrelated themes-the functions of the scholar and the gentry in the traditional Chinese society and the relations of the country and the city, which are key to the understanding of the 'hyper-stability' of the traditional Chinese society and the upheaval of the modern Chinese society.