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). Read More Read Less