Word: xiaotong
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...DIED. FEI XIAOTONG, 94, Chinese sociologist and anthropologist famous for documenting Chinese rural life in works such as Peasant Life in China and From the Soil; in Beijing. One of China's most distinguished and prolific scholars, Fei helped lay the foundation for sociology in China, only to fall from grace during the Cultural Revolution for studying what was considered a capitalist science. Rehabilitated, he became Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, and later served as an adviser to then-Shanghai party secretary Jiang Zemin during the 1989 student-led democracy movement...
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