Chinese Sociologists in the First Half of the 20th Century

Li Peilin is Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Vice President of the Chinese Sociological Association, and Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Studies. He received his master’s degree from Université de Lyon in 1984 and Ph.D. from Paris-Sorbonne in 1987. He has published extensively on sociology in China, and his major works are Social Stratification in China, Social Conflict and Class Consciousness, Social Transformation and Chinese Experiences, etc.Qu Jingdong is associate dean of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, professor of the Department of Sociology, Pekinig University, and serves as Ph.D. supervisor. Qu’s research interests include history of Western social thoughts, history of Chinese sociology and organizational sociology. Qu is the author of Freedom and Education: Reading Two Philosophical Texts on Education of John Locke and Jean-Jarques Rousseau(2019) and others.Yang Yabin is professor of Institution of Society, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), director of China United Front Theory Research Association, and serves as deputy president of Beijing Sociological Association. Yang’s research interests include religious and society and history of Chinese sociology. Yang is the author of Modern Chinese Sociology(2001) and others.

• Li Dazhao and the sociology of historical materialism.- Qu Qiubai and the sociology of historical materialism.- Li Da and An Outline of Sociology.- Wang Yanan and his study of bureaucratic politics.- Chen Hansheng and the practice of economic and social surveys.- Xue Muqiao and the debate on the nature of Chinese rural society.- Feng Hefa and rural economic and social research.- Ma Yinchu and the new population theory.- Liang Shuming’s rural reconstruction theory and practice.- Tao Menghe and social surveys in China.- Yan Yangchu and mass education.- Li Jinghan and the Ding County survey.- Wu Jingchao and the theory of “a helping hand from the cities”.- Li Shuqing and Chinese Society in the Midst of Transformation.- Chen Xujing and The Way Out for Chinese Culture.- Wu Wenzao and the “Sinicization” of sociology.- Fei Xiaotong’s path of sociology.- Lin Yaohua and The Golden Wing.- Yang Maochun and rural studies.- Yang Qingkun and religion in Chinese society.- Francis L.K. Hsu and his study of psychological anthropology.- Zhang Zhiyi and his study of rural industry.- Tian Rukang and his study of people in the border regions.- Shi Guoheng and early study of Chinese enterprises.- Zhao Chengxin and the community study.- Sun Benwen and The Principles of Sociology.- Wu Zelin and Social Restraints.- Leonard S. Hsu and Outline of Population Theory.- Chen Da and his study of the Chinese population and labor.- Yan Xinzhe and his research on social undertaking and the rural population.- Ke Xiangfeng and his study of poverty.- Yan Jingyao and his research on crime.- Yang Kaidao and his rural society study and practice.- Pan Guangdan and his study of eugenics.- Yang Kun and his study of ethnology and mythology.- Li Anzhai and his study of social etiquette.- Qu Tongzu and Chinese Law and Society.- Lei Haizong and Chinese cultural studies.- Lin Tongji’s historical view of cultural morphology.- Xie Guozhen and his work on the literati association and faction.- Luo Xianglin and Hakka Studies.- Fu Zhenlun and his study of Chinese local records.- Chen Dongyuan and his study of the history of Chinese women's life.- Quan Hansheng and his research on China’s guild system.- Fu Yiling and Studies on the Economic History of Fujian’s Tenant Farmers.- Yan Zhongping and The Development of China’s Cotton Industry.