David FAURE Professor of History, Wei Lun Professor of History The Chinese University of Hong Kong   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-).     < Back to CONTRIBUTORS < Back to PROGRAMME