Zhou Feizhou acted as the chairman of the Department of Sociology and the director of the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology.

Zhang Jing acted as the chairwoman of the Department of Sociology and director of the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology.

The Department of Sociology celebrated its 30th anniversary. Xie Lizhong was reappointed the chairman of the Department of Sociology and the director of the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology.

Xie Lizhong was reappointed the chairman of the Department of Sociology and the director of the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology. The Alumni Association of the Department of Sociology of Peking University was established, and the first plenary meeting of the council was held.

Lei Jieqiong passed away.

The Department of Sociology started accepting graduate students for the Master of Social Work Professional Degree (MSW).

Qu Tongzu passed away.

The "China Social Work Research Center" jointly established by the Department of Applied Social Sciences of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Department of Sociology of Peking University had become an important base for social work research and education in China. Xie Lizhong acted as the chairman of the Department of Sociology and the director of the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology.

Fei Xiaotong passed away.

Based on the research strength of the Department of Sociology and the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, the "Chinese Society and Development Research Center of Peking University" had been identified by the Ministry of Education as the key research base of humanities and social sciences in national universities.

Lin Yaohua passed away; Yuan Fang passed away.

The Department of Sociology and the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology of Peking University were officially merged. Ma Rong served as the chairman of the Department of Sociology and the director of the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology.

Yang Qingkun passed away.

Wang Sibin was reappointed chairman of the Department of Sociology.

In the second "Senior Seminar of Social Anthropology", Fei Xiaotong put forward the concept of "culture self-consciousness".

The Department of Sociology of Peking University was authorized to grant master's degree in social security.

Ma Rong served as the director of the Institute of Sociology.

Wang Sibin served as the chairman of the Department of Sociology.

Chen Da's "Life of Urban Workers during China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression", published by China Labor Press, mainly came from the survey of factories and trade unions conducted by the Southwest Associated University-Tsinghua University National Survey Institute during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

The Institute of Sociology of Peking University was renamed the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology of Peking University. Pan Naigu served as the director of the Institute of Sociology, and Wang Sibin was the acting head of the Department of Sociology.

Fei Xiaotong attended the Tanner Lecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and delivered a speech on "Pluralistic Integration of the Chinese Nation".

"Chinese Social and Development Research Center" was established.

The Department of Sociology of Peking University set the major of Social Work and Management.

The Department of Sociology and the Institute of Sociology of Peking University jointly established the postdoctoral mobile station. Zhou Erliu was the director of the Institute of Sociology.

The third Wuxi-Baoding Survey was jointly prepared by the Rural Development Institute, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute of Economics, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, with the assistance of students from the Department of Sociology of Peking University.

Pan Naigu held a post as the chairman of the Department of Sociology.

Fei Xiaotong's Four Stories of Small Towns was published by Xinhua Press.

Wu Wenzao passed away. Fei Xiaotong founded the Institute of Sociology at Peking University, and he was the director.

The Department of Sociology of Peking University had begun to recruit doctoral students.

Fei Xiaotong made a speech on "Small Towns With Big Problems".

The Department of Sociology of Peking University enrolled its first undergraduate students.

The Department of Sociology of Peking University was officially established with Yuan Fang as the chairman of the department.

Peking University began to enroll master students in sociology.

The second sociology workshop commenced.

The professional class of sociology of Nankai University was established.

Peking University temporarily set the sociology major under the Department of International Politics.

With the efforts of Fei Xiaotong and Yang Qingkun, the first sociology workshop organized by the Institute of Sociology of CASS began.

Fei Xiaotong founded the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

"Chinese Sociological Research Association" was established, Fei Xiaotong was the president.

Yan Jingyao passed away, and Qu Tongzu was seconded to the Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Yan Jingyao was transferred to the Department of International Politics at Peking University.

Hunan Museum of Literature and History accepted Qu Tongzu as a librarian.

Qu Tongzu returned to China.

Qu Tongzu's English book "Local Government in China under the Ch'ing" was published by Harvard University Press.

Yang Qingkun's "Religion in Chinese Society: A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors" was published by the University of California Press.

Tao Menghe passed away, Shi Guoheng became the library director of Tsinghua University.

Zhao Chengxin passed away.

Chen Yongling again led a group to Qinghai to conduct ethnic investigation for two years.

Zhang Zhiyi participated in the second Wuxi-Baoding survey conducted by the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Bureau of Statistics.

The Central Labor Cadre School was established, and Chen Da and Yuan Fang were transferred to work at the school. After the Department of Sociology at Fudan University in Shanghai was cancelled, Yan Xinzhe moved to the Department of Education at East China Normal University in Shanghai as a translator. Sun Benwen taught at the Department of Geography, Nanjing University. Shi Guoheng left teaching to work in general affairs at Tsinghua University. Tian Rukang taught history at Fudan University in Shanghai. After the merger of the Department of Childcare and the Department of Education of Beijing Normal University, Guan Ruiwu was also the deputy head of the Department of Education. Chen Xujing was a research professor of History at Sun Yat-sen University.

Chen Yongling participated in the social and historical investigation group organized by the Central Government to change the backwardness of work in minority areas. He successively served as the academic secretary of the Sichuan Group and the head of the Qinghai Group, investigating the Yi, Tu, Salar, Hui, Tibetan and Mongolian nationalities. Li Youyi led the Tibet Social History Investigation team to Tibet for a year of investigation, and later wrote "Two questions on the land system in Tibet" and other papers.

Hu Qingjun joined the central Southwest ethnic visiting group, followed the People's Liberation Army into Zhaojue County in the hinterland of Liangshan, began to investigate the hinterland of Liangshan, and wrote a survey report of 40,000 words "Overview of the Yi Society in Daliang Mountain". After that, Hu Qingjun continued to investigate and study the Liangshan Yi society for many times until the end of 1957.

The sociology discipline was abolished. Wu Wenzao, Pan Guangdan, Wu Zelin, Fei Xiaotong, Song Shuhua, and Chen Yongling went to the newly founded Central Institute for Nationalities; Yan Jingyao and Lei Jieqiong to Beijing University of Political Science and Law; Chen Da, Wu Jingchao, Li Jinghan and Zhao Chengxin went to the Central University of Finance and Economics first, and then to Renmin University of China. Shi Guoheng began his career in general affairs at Tsinghua University and later served as the school's general director.

From 1950 to 1953, Gu Bao went to Mongolian and Kazakh pastoral areas in Gongha County (present-day Nilka County) of Yili Prefecture in northern Xinjiang, Uygur ranches and villages in Yining City, and Uygur villages in nine counties in southern Xinjiang to conduct social and ethnic investigations. These field investigations formed a series of investigation findings such as Survey of Mongolian Pastoral Areas in Gongha County (1950) and Rural Society in Southern Xinjiang (1953).

A revised edition of Lin Yaohua's work was published by Routledge in The UK under the title "The Golden Wing: A Sociological Study of Chinese Familism".

Fei Xiaotong's "Rural China" was completed in Tsinghua University and published by Sanlian Bookstore. In the same year, "The Country Reconstruction" was published by the Shanghai Observer Press, a collection of essays by Fei Xiaotong and Wu Han on traditional Chinese society, was also published by the Shanghai Observer Press. In "China's Gentry", Fei Xiaotong put forward the famous "Dual-track Politics".

Fei Xiaotong's "Procreation Institutions", based on his wartime lectures at Yunnan University, was published by the Commercial Press.

Qu Tongzu's "Law and Society in Traditional China" was published by the Commercial Press and included in the fifth of the "Sociology Series" series A edited by his teacher Wu Wenzao. After QuTongZu abroad, through the author's supplement, modification, the book was translated into English, published in 1961.

Fei Xiaotong left Yunnan to join Tsinghua University, and Zhang Zhiyi stayed in Kuige as an associate professor and acting head of the Department of Sociology at Yunnan University.

Yenching University Chengdu Temporary University returned to Peiping, Lei Jieqiong, Yan Jingyao and other professors returned to teach.

The Commercial Press published "China Enters the Machine Age" as one of the "Sociology Series" founded by Wu Wenzao in China.

On May 4, the university ceased operations.

The Institute of Social Sciences of the "Academia Sinica" was renamed the Institute of Social Sciences, and Tao Menghe remained the director.

Lin Yaohua led his part-time graduate assistant Chen Yongling to investigate the Jiarong Tibetans in the northern border area of Sichuan and Xikang, and completed the investigation report of "Si Tu Jia Rong", but the work was lost due to the war.

Lin Yaohua officially served as the head of the Department of Sociology at Chengdu Yenching University, and Pingjiao Village Sociology Laboratory resumed its activities in Peiping.

Because Pan Guangdan went to Chongqing, Wu Zelin temporarily acted as the deputy head of the Sociology Department of Southwest Associated University.

The university of Chicago press published "Earth bound China: A Study of Rural Economy in Yunnan", written by Fei xiaotong and Zhang Zhiyi, this book was adapted during Fei xiaotong's visit to the United States, based on three survey reports: "Farmland in Lu Cun", "Handicraft Industry in Yicun", and "Agriculture and Commerce in Yucun".

Lin Yaohua went to the north of Xikang to investigate the Tibetan people in Kangding, Zheduotang, Daofu, Luhuo, Ganzi and other places. His ethnographic work "Kangbei Tibetans" was not published after completion, and later published a survey report "Social Conditions of Kangbei Tibetans".

Lin Yaohua's book, "The Golden Wing: A Family Chronicle", was published in the United States by the Institute of Pacific relations.

Pan Guangdan succeeded the chairman of the sociology department of Southwest Associated University, and Lin Yaohua acted as the deputy head of the sociology department of Yenching University. He conducted a social survey of the Yi people in Liangshan and completed the book "The Lolo of Liangshan (Liang-shan I-chia) Human Relations Area Files".

Shi Guoheng collated the previous factory survey data in Kunming, wrote a book "Factory labor in Kunming", and published in mimeograph form. Fei Xiaotong and Francis L. K. Hsu have translated the book into an English version titled "China Enters the Machine Age." The book was perfaced by Professor Wu Wenzao, with an editor's note written by Professor Elton Mayo, chairman of the Hawthorne Laboratory at Harvard University, and published by Harvard University Press in the same year.

Yenching University moved south to Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and established a joint campus with West China Union University, Li Anzhai acted as the deputy director of the Department of Sociology of Yenching University, and presided over the establishment of the West China Frontier Research Institute in West China Union University.

Tao Yunkui was transferred to the Department of Sociology of Southwest Associated University as a professor, offering courses such as "Physical Anthropology" and "Southwest Frontier Society", as well as the elective course "Southwest Frontier Society" for the Chinese Department and the Department of Geology, Geography and Meteorology of Southwest Associated University. In June, Tao Yunkui became the director of the Frontier Humanities Research Office of the Institute of Liberal Arts of Nankai University, edited the journal "Frontier Humanities", and led a group of young scholars from the research office to conduct investigations in Xinping, Yuanjiang and Luoping, Yunnan.

Tian Rukang wrote "The Bai of the Dai People", and Fei Xiaotong personally imprinted the mimeograph for the book. In 1946, the book was published by the Commercial Press under the name of "The Bai of the Border People in Mangshi".

Gubao carried out a survey of traditional organizations in Huacheng Town in the south of Chenggong County, and conducted a review the following year. On the basis of the two surveys, he wrote the book "Traditional Organizations of Village and Township in Huacheng".

Li Anzhai completed three years of field work in Labrang Temple and went to Chengdu, Sichuan Province to teach at West China Union University.

When the Pacific War broke out, the Japanese army closed Yenching University and arrested 18 students and teachers of Yenching University, including principal Lu Zhiwei, and Zhao Chengxin, chairman of the Sociology Department, was also arrested.

Tian Rukang and Shi Guoheng conducted a joint investigation at a textile factory in Kunming. In winter, Tian Rukang went to Mangshi on the Yunnan-Myanmar border and conducted a five-month social investigation in Namu Village.

In the "General Preface" of "Sociology Series", Wu Wenzao summed up the pre-war academic thinking of "Yenching School" , clearly put forward the proposition of the "Sociology of China" . In the same year, he left Yunnan for Chongqing, where Fei Xiaotong presided over the work of the "Kuige".

On the basis of the Department of Historical Sociology of Southwest Associated University, the Department of History and the Department of Sociology were independent departments, and Chen Da served as the chairman of the department, which was still affiliated to the School of Literature.

In Lunan County near Kunming, Li Youyi made a social survey on the regional economy of mixed ethnic groups, and based on this, he wrote "The Economy in Han-Yi Co-inhabited Area".

Fei Xiaotong's doctoral thesis was published by Routledge as "Peasant Life in China", with the title of "Peasant Life in China" on the title page.

Wu Wenzao established "Yenching University-Yunnan University Sociology Field Survey Workstation" in Kunming, and in the same year, the survey workstation was moved to Kuixing Pavilion on the outskirts of Chenggong County, referred to as the "Kuige". Southwest Associated University, Tsinghua University National Census Research Institute moved to the Confucian temple. Zhao Chengxin, Yang Kun, Huang Di and others set up a sociological investigation site in Pingjiao Village near Yenching University to carry out community study.

Fei Xiaotong returned from Britain and joined Wu Wenzao in Yunnan University. Li Anzhai and Yu Shiyu visited Labrang Monastery in the Tibetan area of southern Gansu Province.

Wu Wenzao left Yenching University and went to Yunnan University as a professor of the Sino-British Anthropology Lecture course of the British Boxer Indemnity, Zhao Chengxin became the chairman of the Department of Sociology at Yenching University, and Yuan Fang entered the Department of Historical Sociology at Southwest Associated University.

National Changsha Provisional University moved to Kunming, Yunnan Province, renamed National Southwest Associated University, and officially began classes on May 4.

When the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University were forced to move south to Changsha, Hunan Province, forming the National Changsha Provisional University. During the period of Changsha Provisional University, the Department of Sociology and the Department of History were merged into the Department of Historical Sociology, which belonged to the School of Literature.

The Ching Ho Pilot Zone hosted by the Department of Sociology of Yenching University ended, and Zhang Hongjun officially became the chairman of the Department of Sociology of Yenching University.

Zhang Hongjun acted as the duputy chairman of the Department of Sociology at Yenching University.

Fei Xiaotong and Wang Tonghui went to Dayao Mountain to investigate the Yao nationality, Fei Xiaotong seriously injured, Wang Tonghui passed away. Later Fei Xiaotong wrote the book "Hualanyao Social Organization" based on this investigation.

Wu Wenzao was appointed chairman of the Department of Sociology at Yenching University. The Institute of Social Sciences of the "Academia Sinica" was merged with the Peiping Institute of Social Survey under the leadership of Tao Menghe, and the new institution retained the name of the Institute of Social Sciences, with Tao Menghe as its director.

Yang Kaidao acted as the deputy chairman of the Department of Sociology at Yenching University, Li Jinghan's book "Ding County Social Profile Survey" published by the Chinese Association for the Promotion of Civilian Education. Wu Jingchao was an adjunct instructor in the Department of Sociology at Yenching University.

Lei Jieqiong began to teach in the department of Sociology at Yenching University. Robert Park from the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago visited China and gave lectures in Yenching University, which influenced a number of young students studying there.

Chen Hansheng led the investigation team of the Institute of Social Sciences to the north, in cooperation with the Peiping Social Survey Institute chaired by Tao Menghe, to Qingyuan County, Hebei Province, which was a part of the Wuxi-Baoding rural survey in Hebei. In the process of Qingyuan investigation, Chen Hansheng wrote the article "The Beginning of the Study of China's Rural Economy", and proposed the method of "combining the survey of farmers with the survey of village economy and other general conditions", which was adopted by the subsequent Wuxi-Baoding investigation.

Yang Kaidao escorting cooperation with Xu Shilian completed the "Ching Ho: A Sociological Analysis". In the same year, Shanghai World Book Publishing House published Yang Kaidao's "Rural Problems" and "Rural Society".

The Ching Ho Experimental Area of the Department of Sociology at Yenching University was officially established, and Zhang Hongjun became the first chairman. The pilot zone gradually included 40 villages around Ching Ho Town, and carried out rural small loans, women and children's work and other plans to revive the rural economy and society.

Together with Tao Menhe, Chen Da and other well-known scholars, Xu Shlian launched an initiative to reorganize the original "Southeast Sociology Association" into "Chinese Sociological association", with Sun Benwen elected as the director, Xu Shlian as the deputy director, and Wu Jingchao as the secretary.

The Social Survey Department led by Tao Menghe was reorganized into the Peiping Social Survey Institute, which became an independent research institute.

Wu Wenzao graduated from Columbia University and joined the Department of Sociology at Yenching University.

Li Jinghan served as the director of the Investigation Department of the Chinese Civilian Education Promotion Association, went to Ding County to investigate, and based on the survey of Ding County, he wrote "Ding County Social Profile Survey".

Yang Kaidao led the investigation in Ching Ho Town, Hebei Province, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.

Yan Jingyao completed his graduation thesis "Social Analysis of Crime in Beijing" and then stayed at Yenching University as a teaching assistant in the Department of Sociology.

Xu Shilian officially became the head of the Department of Sociology of Yenching University, and invited Yan Xinzhe to teach in the department, and the courses taught in the first year were "Introduction to Sociology" and "Social Leadership".

Xu Shilian acted as the deputy chairman of the Department of Sociology at Yenching University, and Li Jinghan was hired as a part-time volunteer lecturer in the Department of Sociology.

Tao Menhe left Peking University to head the Social investigation Department under the Board of Directors of the China Education and Culture Foundation.

Zhang Hongjun, a graduate of Yenching University's sociology department, worked as an assistant to the social survey expert Sidney Gamble, who surveyed the lives of 283 families in Peiping.

Yenching University's sociology department had begun hiring Chinese faculty such as Xu Shilian.

The Department of Sociology of Yenching University was established with Bu Jishi as the first chairman.

Yu Tianxiu founded the "Chinese Sociology Association" and served as the first president (1921-1923), which was the first national sociology discipline association in China. In the same year,he founded the Sociological Journal, the first national sociological research journal published by the Commercial Press, and served as the chief editor. Since its founding from 1922 to 1932, the magazine has intermittently published 5 volumes and 13 issues, with more than 200 articles.

Yan Fu passed away.

At the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, Yu Tian Xiu taught at Peking University, where he taught courses on "Principles of Sociology" and "Factions of Social Thought."

Yenching University was founded, and American sociologist John Stewardess Burgess taught sociology at the School of Religion.

Tao Menghe published "The Social Survey" in the New Youth, Volume 4, No.3.

Kang Baozhong taught the first sociology course at Peking University.

"The Light Seekers" began to publish "Evolution and Ethics" translated by Yan Fu.