Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives

About the author

Alan Macfarlane (艾伦·麦克法兰) FBA, taught at the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, for thirty-four years and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropological Science and a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. As an anthropologist and historian he has worked on England, Nepal, Japan and China. He has focused on a comparative study of the origins and nature of the modern world. His website contains a variety of materials including video which is streamed from the Streaming Media Service at Cambridge University. He is author of two dozen books including China, Japan, Europe and the Anglo-sphere: A Comparative Analysis (2018), The Invention of the Modern World (2014), Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction, 1300-1840 (1986), and The Origins of English Individualism: Family, Property and Social Transition (1979).