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David Faure (historian)

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David William Faure (born 1947) is a Hong Kong historical anthropologist, and is an expert in the economic and social history of Southern China.

Biography

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Faure was born and educated in Hong Kong. He graduated from St. Paul's College and the Department of History of the University of Hong Kong, and later obtained a PhD in sociology from Princeton University.

From 1990 to 2006, he lectured Modern Chinese History at St. Anthony College, Oxford University,[1][2] where he is now an Emeritus Fellow.[3] He also taught in Indiana University. From 2010 to 2017, he led the project "The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society" commissioned by the Hong Kong Government.[4]

He is currently a professor in the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK),[5] and an editor of the Journal of History and Anthropology (Chinese:歷史人類學學刊)[2] as well as a director of the Centre for China Studies, CUHK.[2]

Publications

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  • Faure, David (1986). The structure of Chinese Rural Society: Lineage and Village in the Eastern New Territories, Hong Kong. East Asian Historical Monographs. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-583970-6.
  • Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China, Standford: Standford University Press 2007. 皇帝和祖宗—华南的国家与宗族,江蘇人民出版社,2009。
  • China and Capitalism, A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press 2006.
  • "La solution lignagere: la revolution rituelle du xviesiecle et 1 tat imperial chinois," Annales, Histoire, Sciences, Sociales 2006, 61:6, pp. 1291-1316.
  • "The Yao Wars in the mid-Ming and their impact on Yao ethnicity," in Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu and Donald Sutton, eds. Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity and Frontier in Early Modern China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, pp. 171-189.
  • 人類學與中國近代社會史:影響與前景,東吳歷史學報,14, 2005, 頁 21-36。
  • "The common people in Hong Kong history: their livelihood and aspirations unitl the 1930s," in Lee Pui-tak, ed. Colonial Hong Kong and Modern China, Interaction and Reintegration, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005, pp. 9-37.
  • "Between house and home, the family in south China," in Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-yin Lo, eds. House Home and Family: Living and Being Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
  • “The local official in commercial litigation in early nineteenth-century China,” University of Tokyo Journal of Law and Politics, 2004, vol. 1, pp. 144-155.
  • 《告別華南研究》,華南研究會編:《學步與超越﹕華南研究論文集》﹐香港﹕文化創造出版社﹐2004﹐頁9-30。
  • A Documentary History of Hong Kong, vols. 2 Society and 3 Economy, (volume 3 co-edited with Pui-tak Lee), Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1997 and 2004.
  • Colonialism and the Hong Kong Mentality, Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 2003.
  • “The original translocal society and its modern fate: historical and post-reform south China,” (with Helen Siu) Provincial China 8:1, 2003, pp. 40-59.
  • 《祠堂與家廟: 從宋末到明中葉宗族禮儀的演變》,《歷史人類學學報》,1:2, 2003, 頁 1-20。
  • “The Heaven and Earth Society in the nineteenth century: an interpretation,” in Kwang-ching Liu and Richard Shek, eds. Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004, pp. 365-392.

References

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  1. ^ "David Faure: A Short Biography" (PDF). Department of History The Chinese University of Hong Kong.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b c "David William FAURE (Fellow)". HKAH. 2019-05-17. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
  3. ^ "Dr David Faure". St Antony's. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
  4. ^ "The Historical Anthropoloty of Chinese Society". CUHK. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
  5. ^ "科大衛". 香港中文大學 (in Traditional Chinese).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)