Mountains Surmounted · Fei Xiaotong

Author: Zhang Guansheng
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: A Chinese intellectual born in the early 20th century, who dedicated his life to scholarship as his way of life, while also pursuing academic pursuits through tracking, observing, recording, and understanding the changes in Chinese society. He insists on field research and empirical studies, taking society as his classroom, the people as his teachers, and enriching the people as his aspiration. He accumulates miles through small steps, avoids the toil of endless writing, gains the essence of the people, and cultivates a worldly perspective over more than sixty years. He has written numerous works of equal height to his body, speaking for the unspoken. Now, despite being over ninety, 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.