David Faure
Professor
Department of History
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
I think I am interested in social history. That means I am interested in custom, but I am not really interested in the history of customs. I am also interested in life style, but the social history I want to write is not the history of lifestyles. I guess I am interested in social structure, not the social structure created by historians, but the social structure which the people I am interested in identify with. I believe people can only surpass the limits imposed by the structure they identify with by understanding it. Yes, I think we read history to contribute to a better life.
Research Interest
The history of the lineage in south China Chinese business history The history of Hong Kong Local history in China
Publications
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Helen konhu L (2006) "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 15: 171-189.
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Hung H (2006) "La solution lignagere: la revolution rituelle du xviesiecle et 1 tat imperial chinois." Annales, Histoire, Sciences, Sociales 61: 1291-1316.
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Kwang F (2004) “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 12: 365-392.
