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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