David William Faure (born 1947) is a Hong Kong historical
anthropologist
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, and is an expert in the economic and social history of
Southern China
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Extent
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.
Biography
Faure was born and educated in
Hong Kong
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. He graduated from
St. Paul's College and the Department of History of the
University of Hong Kong
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, and later obtained a PhD in sociology from
Princeton University
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.
From 1990 to 2006, he lectured Modern Chinese History at
St. Anthony College,
Oxford University
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,
where he is now an Emeritus Fellow. He also taught in
Indiana University
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. From 2010 to 2017, he led the project "The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society" commissioned by the Hong Kong Government.
He is currently a retired professor in the Department of History at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university, public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...
(CUHK),
and a former editor of the
Journal of History and Anthropology (Chinese:歷史人類學學刊)
as well as a former director of the Centre for China Studies, CUHK.
Publications
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* Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China, Stanford: Stanford 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 until 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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1947 births
Living people
21st-century Hong Kong historians
Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Historians of China
Princeton University alumni