page_title: Fei Xiaotong
section_title: Career in academic sociology
hierarchical_section_title: Fei Xiaotong / Career in academic sociology
caption_attribution_description: English: Fei Xiaotong in Yangqing University.中文（简体）‎: 胸前别着燕京大学校徽的费孝通。
context_page_description: Fei Xiaotong or Fei Hsiao-Tung was a Chinese anthropologist and sociologist. He was a pioneering researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist. One of China's finest sociologists and anthropologists, his works on these subjects were instrumental in laying a solid foundation for the development of sociological and anthropological studies in China, as well as in introducing social and cultural phenomena of China to the international community. His last post before his death in 2005 was as Professor of Sociology at Peking University.
context_section_description: At missionary-founded Yenching University in Peiping, which had China's best sociology program, he was stimulated by the semester visit of Robert E. Park, the University of Chicago sociologist.  For an M.A. in anthropology, Fei went to nearby Tsinghua University where he studied with Pan Guangdan and learned fieldwork methods from a White Russian, S. M. Shirokogoroff.  Fei's first fieldwork experience, in the rugged mountains of Guangxi province in the far south, ended tragically after Fei's leg was crushed by a tiger trap, and his young bride Wang Tonghui (王同惠) died seeking help.
caption: Fei Xiaotong in Yenching University
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