Wandered Through Green Mountains · Fei Xiaotong

Author: Fei Xiaotong Zhang Guansheng
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Features: A Chinese intellectual born at the beginning of the 20th century, he spent his life dedicated to academic pursuits as his means of livelihood. He also devoted himself to tracking, observing, documenting, and understanding the changes in Chinese society as the foundation of his academic career. He insisted on field research and empirical studies, treating society as his classroom and the common people as his teachers. His ambition was to enrich the people, and he aimed to achieve greatness through small, steady steps, avoiding the exhausting labor of writing endless volumes, gaining the resilience of the people, and refining his worldly insights over more than six decades. He produced works as tall as his own body, revealing the larger picture through small details, speaking of things others have not yet addressed. Even now, at the brink of his nineties, he still calls himself a "student," spending one-third of his time each year "going out to find teachers." As he walks, observes, asks, records, and writes.