费孝通对贵州民族研究工作的贡献及当代意义

FEI Xiao-tong’s Contribution to Ethnic Research of Guizhou and Its Contemporary Significance

费孝通从20世纪50至90年代,多次访问贵州,对贵州民族研究工作做出了重要贡献。他作为中央访问团副团长访问贵州期间深入民族地区与人民群众交心、交友、交情,把党的民族政策宣传到和落实到千家万户、参与少数民族地区政权建设和培养民族干部,为新型社会主义民族关系做出了突出贡献。他在指导贵州民族识别工作中,始终坚持调查研究、遵循科学与主体自觉相结合以及实事求是的原则,为民族识别工作的顺利完成发挥了重大贡献。他获得第二次学术生命后,再次访问贵州并关注其社会发展,为消除民族贫困提出了长远谋划。费孝通的贵州民族研究工作,不仅是其民族理论建构的主要源泉,也是形成我国民族研究理论和方法的重要基础,对新时代民族研究工作具有重要的启发意义。

FEI Xiao-tong has visited Guizhou many times from the 1950 s to the 1990 s, and made significant contributions to the ethnic studies in Guizhou. During his visit to Guizhou as a Deputy Head of the Central Mission, he has established profound friendship with the people in the ethnic areas, propagandized and implemented the party’ s ethnic policies to thousands of households, participated in the regime construction in ethnic minority areas, and cultivated many minority cadres. He has made outstanding contributions to the socialist national relations. He always adhered to the principles of investigation/research, the combination of science and consciousness of the main body while be practical and realistic when guiding the national identificatio works in Guizhou, and played a crucial role for the successful completion of national identificatio. He visited Guizhou again in his second academic life and attached great importance to its social development,and proposed a long-term plan in elimination of national poverty. The ethnic research of Guizhou by Fei Xiaotong is not only the primary source of his ethnic theory construction, but also a mainstay for the formation of China’s ethnic research theories and methodology, which is helpful for ethnic research in the new era.