Thursday November 6, 1700 – 1830 hrs
University of Oxford China Centre (Lecture Theatre 1, basement level)
Dickson Poon Building
Canterbury Road
Oxford OX2 6LU
Prof. David Faure
“The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society: Five Years into This Research Project.”
Since 2010, the Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have funded the Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society project as an “Area of Excellence” based at the Chinese University. The project has continued the field-work approach that a number of us on the research team have long advocated for studying late imperial and Republican China. With the collaboration of historians primarily in China, the project studies how local history may be understood in a broad, China-wide, context. My own aim in the project has been to examine how local societies in different parts of China had applied ritual in response to impositions from the state and, how, in this process, an ideology for cultural unity was created and maintained. In this brief talk, I shall present some findings from the project and recent developments.
David Faure is Wei Lun Research Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He directs the Centre for China Studies, which runs undergraduate and graduate programmes in Chinese Studies, and also the CUHK-SYSU Centre for Historical Anthropology. He has written on the history of local societies in China.
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