Stephan FeuchtwangStephan 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 Perspetive 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). 王斯福 (Stephan Feuchtwang), 英国伦敦经济学院人类学系荣休教授, 在伦敦城市大学创办了英国最早的社会科学研究中国的机构(1973), 在伦敦经济学院创办了迄今为止世界唯一的中国比较研究项目(2006), 为中国比较研究网 (CCPN LSE) 创始主任; 曾任英国汉学协会 (BACS) 主席。自1966年以来，他一直从事大陆和台湾地区流行的宗教与政治研究，发表了许多关于个人魅力、地方、寺庙和节日以及公民社会的著述。后来，他对承认灾难性损失做了探索性的研究，包括归档和召回的损失，以及它们在中国的宇宙论和其他地方的幽灵的分类。近年来，他在致力于关于文明与帝国比较的研究。他出版了十多本著作和几十篇论文，代表作为Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor (1991, 2001, 中译本 《帝国的隐喻 中国民间宗教》, 赵旭东译, 1999), After the Event: The Transmission of Grevious Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan (2011)。 Read More Read Less