Faure's self-introduction

溯洄從之

2005.10.01

David Faure 　
B.A. (University of Hong Kong), Ph D (Princeton University);
Department Chairman, Professor

I think I am interested in social history. That means I am interested in custom, but I am not really interested in the history of customs. I am also interested in life style, but the social history I want to write is not the history of lifestyles. I guess I am interested in social structure, not the social structure created by historians, but the social structure which the people I am interested in identify with. I believe people can only surpass the limits imposed by the structure they identify with by understanding it. Yes, I think we read history to contribute to a better life.

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