Fei Xiaotong Studies, Vol. II, English edition - Hardcover

Feuchtwang, Stephan: - Stephan Feuchtwang is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE). He established the first centre for social scientific study on China in the UK (1973) at City University London, and the MSc China in Comparative Perspective Programme (2006) at the LSE, to date the only one of its kind in the world. He was Present of the British Association of China Studies (BACS). He has been engaged in research on popular religion and politics in mainland China and Taiwan since 1966, resulting in a number of publications on charisma, place, temples and festivals, and civil society. He has recently been engaged in a comparative project exploring the theme of the recognition of catastrophic loss, including the loss of archive and recall, which in Chinese cosmology and possibly elsewhere is pre-figured in the category of ghosts. Most recently he has been pursuing a project on the comparison of civilizations and empires. He has published more than ten books and a few dozen articles, including Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor (1991, 2001) and After the Event: The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan (2011).Xiangqun, Chang: - "Xiangqun Chang is Director of Global China Institute, Editor of Journal of China in Comparative Perspective (JCCP), and Chief Editor of Global China Press; Honorary Professor at University College London, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University London, UK, and holder of several professorships and senior fellowships at Peking, Renmin, Fudan and Sun Yat-sen universities in China. To date the only UK-based sociologist trained in both China and the UK, she has been working at universities on social scientific studies of China interdisciplinarily since 1991, when she came to the UK as a Visiting Fellow. In the past two-plus decades Xiangqun has conducted about two dozen research projects and published over two million Chinese characters and English words. Based on a thorough and detailed ethnography of a Chinese village with longitudinal comparisons, she developed a general analytical concept - 'recipropriety' (lishang-wanglai 礼尚往来) - a Chinese model of reciprocity, relatedness and social networks (see Guanxi or Li shang wanglai? Reciprocity, Social Support Networks, & Social Creativity in a Chinese Village, 2010). This 'recipropriety model' is being tested in many projects with both interdisciplinary and comparative approaches."Daming, Zhou: - ZHOU Daming is Professor of the School of Anthropology and Sociology, Chang Jiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of Ministry of Education, Director of the Ethnic Group Study Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, Deputy Director of Historical Anthropology Research Center, Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Key Research Base at Sun Yat-sen University, and Vice-president of the China Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (UAES), China. He was co-editor of the US-based Chinese Sociology Anthropology (1981-2011). He has published nine books and a few dozen articles. His academic contributions have mainly focused on aspects of migration and urbanization, ethnic groups and regional culture, applied anthropology, and construction of anthropological discipline. He is the initiator of urban anthropology research in China and constructed the theme, method and theoretical basis for the study of urban anthropology in China. He has also used the theory of ethnic group and ethnic group relations to carry out regional cultural studies in China. In the field of applied anthropology, he has undertaken various commissioned projects of the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council, the Guangdong Provincial Government and other institutions and departments.