Bulletin No. 2, 2009

14   Chinese University Bulletin No. 2, 2009 W ith its rich humanities tradition, CUHK has an abundance of humanities researchers. In addition to the five scholars previously featured, we also have Prof. David Faure, an expert in the history of lineage in south China and Chinese business history. Professor Faure recently published Emperor and Ancestor , an acclaimed study of county government and ritual reforms in the Pearl River Delta during the Ming and Qing dynasties. His research project ‘The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society’ has been chosen by the University Grants Committee as one of its Areas of Excellence. Drawing on historical documents and field research, this project will study 15 geographic areas in China to recover the history of both how local society acquired and identified with its own characteristics, and incorporated into, and accepted, the broad expanse of a unified culture. Where the Humanities Flourish