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Flowers Campaign (in which intellectuals were, for a while encouraged to speak out), he was criticised as a rightist deviationist for expressing doubts about Party policy. After making a self-criticism in 1953, he was cleared of all charges. Nothing is known of his activities at the height of the Cultural Revolution from 1966 until 1972, when he reappeared at a reception for the American Sinologist, John K Fairbank.
Fei travelled to Denver, USA, to collect the Malinowski Prize for anthropology in 1980. His last visit to Britain was in 1981, when he was awarded the Thomas Huxley Prize by the Royal Anthropology Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. He has also visited Japan and Canada in the late 1970s.
Publications
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1945
1947
1948
1953
Peasant Life in China
Earthbound China
Systems of Child Bearing
Rural China
Rural Reconstruction
Gentry Power and Imperial Power China's Gentry
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