The Most Famous
ANTHROPOLOGISTS from China
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Anthropologists. The pantheon dataset contains 69 Anthropologists, 1 of which were born in China. This makes China the birth place of the 19th most number of Anthropologists behind Greece and Sweden.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Anthropologists of all time. This list of famous Chinese Anthropologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Fei Xiaotong (1910 - 2005)
With an HPI of 49.30, Fei Xiaotong is the most famous Chinese Anthropologist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Fei Xiaotong or Fei Hsiao-tung (November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005) 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. Starting in the late 1930s, he and his colleagues established Chinese sociology and his works were instrumental in laying a 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.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as anthropologists born between 1910 and 1910. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased anthropologists include Fei Xiaotong.
