The Anthropology of China (ePub)

Professor Stephan Feuchtwang is an emeritus professor of the Anthropology Department at the London School of Economics. He has been engaged in research on popular religion and politics in mainland China and Taiwan since 1966, resulting in 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. In 2015 he completed the coordination of research on planning and community formation in urban neighbourhoods of four cities as part of a European Commission project on sustainable urbanisation in China. He has also been pursuing a project on the comparison of civilisations and empires.

Dr Charlotte Bruckermann is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Since completing her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oxford in 2013, she has worked at the London School of Economics, Humboldt University and the University of Basel. Her areas of expertise include the anthropology of China, ritual, work, gender, economic transformation, and post-socialism. Based on fieldwork in rural Shanxi Province her research has explored how villagers make themselves at home despite economic inequality, political rupture, and ecological degradation. She is about to embark on research investigating the role of finance in driving environmental projects.

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