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 Academic Background 
PhD Sociology, Princeton University 
BA History, University of Hong Kong 
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 Research Interest 
- The history of the lineage in south China
 
- Chinese business history
 
- The history of Hong Kong
 
- Local history in China
 
- Chinese social and business history, historical anthropology
 
 
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 Current Research 
- Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society (funded by the RGC)
 
 
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 Other Positions Held 
- Wei Lun Research Professor of History, CUHK
 
- Director of Center for Comparative and Public History, CUHK
 
- Director of CUHK-SYSU Centre for Historical Anthropology, CUHK
 
 
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 Selected Publications 
| 2007 | 
Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. | 
 
| 2006 | 
China and Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. | 
 
| 2006 | 
"La solution lignagère La révolution rituelle du xvie siècle et l'État impérial chinois," Annales, Histoire, Sciences, Sociales 2006, 61:6: pp. 1291-1316. | 
 
| 2006 | 
"The Yao Wars in the mid-Ming and their impact on Yao ethnicity," in Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity and Frontier in Early Modern China, ed. Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu and Donald Sutton (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), pp. 171-189. | 
 
 
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