Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China

Arkush, R. David

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“…The quantitative approach was introduced in the early 1900s to assess urban poverty and the experiences of the underprivileged as a critique to traditional Chinese elite knowledge (Chiang, 2001;Lam, 2011). The qualitative approach was first used in the 1930s by scholars who had studied outside of China; its objectives were to identify opportunities and formulate policies of urbanization, intent on building a competitive urban-based political economy (Arkush, 1981;Yan, 2004). After the establishment of the People's Republic of China by the CCP in 1949, both quantitative and qualitative approaches were severely criticized for their imperialist connections and urban-centred bourgeois orientation.…”

Section: Doing Qualitative Research In the Chinese Contextmentioning

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Doing (critical) qualitative research in China in a global era

Hsiung

2014

International Sociology

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Over the last decades, qualitative researchers from the global south have questioned the dominance of the Anglo-American core and the current divide between the core and periphery. Nevertheless, it is unclear how to disrupt the divide. This article advances this endeavour by demonstrating the interplay between Anglo-American domination and a local hegemonic discourse that has perpetuated the core–periphery divide and hindered the development of critical qualitative research (QR) in the periphery. The author conceptualizes the periphery as an incubator that nurtures locally grounded and globally informed qualitative researchers. This demands interrogating the interplay between core domination and local hegemony. Doing so lays the foundation for qualitative researchers in the periphery to explore, and eventually articulate, decentred methodologies and locally situated epistemologies on a globalized platform. Using two case studies of QR conducted in China, the article examines the practices and politics of doing (critical) QR in contemporary China. It discusses methodological and epistemological issues pertinent to decentring QR in a global era.

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Section: Doing Qualitative Research In the Chinese Contextmentioning

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Doing (critical) qualitative research in China in a global era

Hsiung

2014

International Sociology

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“…In China, the Communist takeover in China rapidly resulted in its labeling as a "bourgeois science" and in its suppression from the university curricula (Chen, 2018, pp. 29-31;also see Arkush, 1981).…”

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Under Western Eyes? Elements for a Transnational and International History of Sociology in Asia (1960s–1980s)

Dufoix¹

2021

J Historical Sociology

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Very few articles or chapters account for the history of sociology in Asia as a whole or for its inception from the late 19th century, especially in Japan, China and India. The following article, partly based on archival evidence, takes into consideration two important elements that bind together the various developments of sociology in Asia after World War II, namely calls for a better relevance of concepts and theories in order to fight academic colonialism, and strivings in the 1970s for the organization of an Asian sociological or social science organization. It will end with a short reflection and interrogation on the role of Asia in the world social science archipelago. | INTRODUCTIONSociology was not invented in Asia. 1 If debates are still going on about the role played by the Arab writer Ibn Khaldūn (14th century C.E.) in the first developments of social science (Soyer & Gilbert, 2012;S .F. Alatas, 2014), the very word that is still today mostly recognized as being the identifier of the discipline was coined by the French author Auguste Comte 2 in the 1830s as sociologie (Heilbron, 1995), to be gradually translated in very close words in most European languages (sociology, Soziologie, sociología, sociologia in Italian and Portuguese) during the second half of the 19th century.In the Sinosphere, the situation was different and it has to be taken into consideration if one wants to get a proper idea of the meaning of society and sociology in the Eastern part of Asia, not only now or some decades ago, but more than one century ago. It should never be forgotten that sociology -with some scholars deliberately arguing with other Western or non-Western sociologist, or as a discipline -emerged in the late 19th century and developed more or less intensely in Japan, China, and India in the first half of the 20th century. According to the British anthropologist Maurice Freedman (1962, p. 113) "before the Second World War, outside north America and western Europe, China was the seat of the most flourishing sociology in the world, at least in respect of its intellectual quality." 3 Although the institutionalizing steps were not comparable and did not occur in the same periods of time (respectively in Japan, China, and India), these three countries represented important milestones in the history of the whole discipline (for Japan, see

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“…This friendship might have been facilitated by the fact that Mayo's eminent Polish anthropologist friend Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) had supervised Fei's PhD thesis at the University of London. Even more obvious, however, the bonds between Fei and Mayo were primarily owed to a very close co-operation in the process of translating Shih's book entitled China Enters The Machine Age, which was published in 1944 by the Harvard University Press in English with Fei as the editor (Arkush, 1981). In fact, the influence of Mayo went far beyond being the mere translating aid here, which can be clearly seen by Fei's emotional request towards Mayo to help finding a new sub-title, as the publisher suggested a change after having informed Fei about the provisional acceptance of the book.…”

Section: Period Pre-1949mentioning

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“…The "big-names" in the field, Mayo, Roethlisberger and Whitehead, were all highly interested in obtaining research reports from Fei and assumed that these "help us to understand the nature of his problems in China" (BLHC, Record of meeting held on October 20, 1943) In exchange, the HBS agreed in providing Fei with "books and papers and so forth, which we thought would be of assistance to him and his research station in China" (Arkush, 1981). Apart, Fei and the participants of the meeting agreed to also take Jukang Tien, who contributed a chapter to China Enters the Machine Age, as a Harvard exchange-student.…”

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In search of the roots of HRM in the Chinese workplace

Busse

Warner

Zhao

2016

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to trace back the roots of US-driven “Human Resource Management” (HRM) school of thought which now become widely institutionalized in China, up to the present day. Design/methodology/approach It looks at the diffusion of management knowledge over the period to Chinese business, which involved in turn scientific management (SM), human relations (HR) and HRM, respectively, from the interwar years onwards, by using a bibliometric analysis of Chinese language sources, searching a number of databases now available. Findings The authors scanned the international, as well as Chinese, literature to support a conjecture of a HR route towards China and how it morphed into HRM and went on to conclude that there was by the end of the year 2015 still a significant output of academic publications with references to both HR and HRM, respectively, but that we must be cautious in asserting a firm conclusion. Originality/value This paper traces back the roots of Chinese HRM back to the US-driven HR school of thought.

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Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China

Cited by 15 publications

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Doing (critical) qualitative research in China in a global era

Doing (critical) qualitative research in China in a global era

Under Western Eyes? Elements for a Transnational and International History of Sociology in Asia (1960s–1980s)

In search of the roots of HRM in the Chinese workplace

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