Professor Fei Xiaotong, who has died aged 94, was one of China's finest anthropologists. His book Peasant Life In China (1939) made him famous in the English-speaking world, but he will be remembered in China for his role in advising the economic reformers in the post-Mao era, when the policy of rural industrialisation, which he had advocated since the late 1930s, flourished.

read Stephan Feuchtwang's obituary in the Guardian.

jj's blog has a summary and linklist of English and Chinese obituaries and works of Fei.

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