Books by David Faure

This book brings to life a thousand years of history on the Pearl River delta and provides rich documentation for the author's argument that in China ritual played the role of law in the West, serving as the glue that bound society together.

Bringing local history to bear on major questions in Chinese social history and anthropology, this volume comprises a series of historical and ethnographic studies of the Pearl River Delta from late imperial times through the 1940's.

The transformation in Chinese social theory in the twentieth century placed the rural-urban divide at the centre of individual identity. This interdisciplinary collection traces the development and distinctions between urban and rural life and the effect on the Chinese sense of identity from the sixteenth century to the present day.