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David Faure is Wei Lun Chair Professor of History at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong. He specializes in social and economic
history from the Ming dynasty to the Second World War, local history
of China and the history of Hong Kong. He is the holder of numerous
RGC grants, including the Collaborative Research Grant project of
“Redefining the West River: Ming and Qing State Building and the
Transformation of Native Society” (2007-2010), and the Area of
Excellence project of “The Historical Anthropology of Chinese
Society” (on-going). He is also the Principal Investigator of three
research training clusters at the Hong Kong Institute for the
Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Hong Kong,
entitled “South China Program”, “Shanxi Historical Relics: Training
for Recording and Preservation” and “Indigenous Charities in the
Modern World”.
Some of Faure’s major publications include Colonialism and the
Hong Kong Mentality (Centre of Asian Studies, the University of
Hong Kong, 2003); A Documentary History of Hong Kong, Vol. 3
Economy (co-editor Pui-tak Lee, HKU Press, 2004); China and
Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China
(Hong Kong University Press, 2006); Emperor and Ancestor: State
and Lineage in South China (Stanford University Press, 2007). He
is also the author of hundreds of book chapters and papers, one of
his latest papers being “Images of Mother: The Place of Women in
South China” in Merchants’ Daughters: Women, Commerce and
Regional Culture in South China (HKU Press, 2010)
Faure is also one of the co-editors of the series “Understanding
China: New Viewpoints on History and Culture” (HKU Press, 2006-). |
