Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives

Volume 5, 2019

《全球中国比较研究》，2019年第5期

The concept of civilization and the civilization of China

Author: Stephan Feuchtwang

Volume number: 5
Year of publication: 2019
Language: English
Publisher: Global Century Press (London)
ISSN 2633-9544 (print)
ISSN 2633-9552 (online)
ISBN 978-1-913522-29-4
DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/JCGCP.en.2019.1

作者：王斯福

期号：第5期
出版年份：2019年
语言：英文
出版社：环球世纪出版社 (伦敦)
ISSN 2633-9560 (印刷版)
ISSN 2633-9579 (电子版)
ISBN 978-1-913522-29-4
DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/JCGCP.en.2019.1

Categories: 王斯福, Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives (JCGCP, Vol. 5, 2019), Journals periodicals 期刊与集刊, Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives (JCGCP), Stephan Feuchtwang

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Abstract: This lecture was given at the Fudan Advanced Institute for Social Sciences on 30th March 2009. It has been revised by the contributor before publication here.

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Stephan Feuchtwang (王斯福) is an Emeritus Professor of the Department of Anthropology, and founding director of the China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was President of the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS). Based on his long term studies on popular religion and politics in mainland China and Taiwan he published work on charisma, place, temples and festivals, and civil society. He has been engaging comparative studies exploring the recognition of catastrophic loss, and civilisations and empires. He is author of After the Event: The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan (2011), and Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor (2001).

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Stephan Feuchtwang, ‘The concept of civilization and the civilization of China’, Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives, Volume 5, 2019, London: Global Century Press. DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/JCGCP.en.2019.1 (王斯福，‘ ’，《全球中国比较研究》，2019年第5期，伦敦：全球世纪出版社。DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/JCGCP.en.2019.1)

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Editor’s note / Xiangqun Chang

Articles

The concept of civilization and the civilization of China / Stephan Feuchtwang

Five civilizations compared: China, Japan, Islam, Europe and the Anglosphere / Alan Macfarlane

Civilization and its conceptualizations in ethnology, social anthropology and sociology / WANG Mingming

Commentaries

Anthropology and the LSE’s links with India and China / Chris Fuller

Fei Xiaotong (Fei Hsiao-t’ung) at LSE and beyond / Stephan Feuchtwang

Some thoughts on the differential self and Professor Fei Xiaotong in October 2016 / Stephan Feuchtwang

Revisiting the morality of China in Africa / Stephen Chan

A comparison of the media systems in China and Japan / Duncan Bartlett

Interview

How can anthropology become directly involved in Eurasian studies? / ZHANG Fan and WANG Mingming

Methodology

Comprehending China (countries) computationally / Hans Kuijper

Computational social sciences in China / Jiaojiang Luo

Book reviews

Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires / Review by John Ashbourne
Enemies of Civilization: Attitudes toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and China / Review by Huili Zheng
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe / Review by Hilde De Weerdt
After the Event: the Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan / Reviews by Martin Albrow / Sascha Klotzbücher
Politics and Religion in Ancient and Medieval Europe and China / Review by Lik Hang Tsui
Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese and Mexicans in Western America, 1848-1890 / Review by Laurent Bachmann

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