LIU Zhiwei
Contact: hsslzw@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Research Areas: Social and Economic History of Ancient China, Study of Traditional Chinese Rural Society, Historical Anthropology
Personal Information
Address:
Department of History
Sun Yat-sen University
135 Xingang Xi Road
Guangzhou
Guangdong, 510275
P. R. China
Tel: 86-20-84113120
Fax: 86-20-84113308
Email: hsslzw@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Education
1974-1977 Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University
1980-1983 M.A., Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University
Employment
1983-1985 Instructor, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University
1985-1990 Lecturer, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University
1990-1994 Associate Professor, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University
1994-to date Professor, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University
2000-2008 Head, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University
2008-2015 Executive Dean, School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Sun Yat-sen University
2009-2023 Director, Centre for Historical Anthropology;
Feb-Jul, 1993, Visiting Scholar, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jul-Aug. 1994, Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, University of Chinese, Hong Kong
Feb-Aug. 1995, Wang Kuancheng Scholar United Kingdom, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of United Kingdom, Oxford University of China
May- July 1996, Visiting Scholar, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jul-Aug. 1997, Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University, Hong Kong
May-July 1998, Visiting Scholar, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
March-July 1999 Visiting Scholar, Department of History, The University of Hong Kong
February-August 2003, Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, United States
February-August 2006, Visiting Professor, Department of History, Jinan International University, Taiwan
February-July 2013, Visiting Professor, Hakka Culture College, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
September 2015-January 2016, Visiting Professor, Department of History, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan University
March-June 2019, Invited Visiting Professor, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking University
Research Interests:
Social and Economic History of Ancient China, Study of Traditional Chinese Rural Society, Historical Anthropology
Publications
Monographs and Edited Volumes (selected):
2014 Anthropology and History: Proceedings of the First East Asian Anthropology Forum (co-edited with Ma Guoqing), Social Sciences Academic Press, 2014.
2015 Guangxi Gongcheng Inscription Collection (Editor-in-Chief), Guangdong People's Publishing House, 2015.
2017 Introduction to Panyu History and Culture (co-authored with Zhu Guangwen), Sun Yat-sen University Press, 2017.
2019 Tribute System and Market, Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 2019
2019 Borrowing Topics to Play, Beijing: China Social Sciences Academic Press, 2019.
2020 Streamside Lights: Miscellaneous Discussions on Social and Economic History, Beijing Normal University Press, 2020.
2020 Dongguan Mingluntang Archives (Editor-in-Chief), Guangdong People's Publishing House, 2020.
2022 Digital Humanities and the Development of New Liberal Arts, edited by Liu Zhiwei and Wang Lei, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2022.
1997 Between the State and the Society: Household Registry and Taxation System of Guangdong Province in Ming and Qing Period, Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen University Press.
1999 Management Culture: Administration and Operation of Chinese Social Units (Co- edited with Chen Chunsheng), Hong Kong, Hong Kong Educational Press.
1999 Documents of Zhang Shenghe’s family, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and South China Historical Research Press.
1993 Social and Economic History of Feudatorial China(Co-edited), Wuhan University
Press.
Anthology of Liang Fangzhong (ed.), Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen University
Press.
Articles (selected):
2022 Understanding National History in the Study of Regional History, Journal of Jiangxi Normal University (Philosophy and Social Science), No. 1, 2022.
2022 The Concept of Non-Economic "Food and Goods", Open Era, Issue 1, 2023.
2021 Structural processes in local societies and cultures: A dialogue between historiography and anthropology in Pearl River Delta studies，CHINESE STUDIES IN HISTORY，Vol，54 no 3, July 3, 2021pp.180-192, ISSN 00094633
2021 From "Qingshuijiang Documents" to "Jinping Documents": The Value of Counties in the Historical Process and Regional Cultural Structure, Journal of Original Ecological Ethnic Culture, No. 1, 2021.
2021 As the "food" of the economic history method, "Open Era" 2021 Issue 1. Maritime crowds are the protagonists of China's maritime history, History Teaching, Issue 18, 2021.
2021 A Whip Law from the Perspective of the Transformation of the National Financial System, Historical Collection, No. 5, 2021.
2021 Bottom-up Research on Institutional History: Taking the "One Whip Method" and "Diagram A System" as Examples, see Deng Xiaonan, Xing Yitian, and Yan Buke, eds., Multi-faceted Institutions (Institutional Research from an Interdisciplinary Perspective), Joint Publishing Co., Ltd., April 2021
2020 Field and "Ritual-Customs" Interaction, Folklore Research, No. 1, 2020. Rural Positioning and Its Possibilities in the Context of Urban-Rural Integration, Journal of China Agricultural University (Social Science Edition), No.1, 2020.
2020 Understanding the Land System of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Operation of the Household Registration Tax System and the Land Rights Market (with Zhao Siyuan), Social Sciences in China, No. 1, 2020.
2020 Chinese Regional Cultural Studies: Theory, Methods and Historical Data Expansion, Humanities Review, No. 1, 2020. Silver and the Transformation of the Ming Dynasty, Eight Lectures on Chinese History (Gan Yang and Hou Xudong (eds.), Beijing: Joint Publishing Co., Ltd., 2020.
2020 The study of economic history in traditional China needs to go beyond formal economics, Qing History Research, No. 6, 2020.
2019 The Purpose and Path of Regional History Research, Regional History Research, No. 1, China Social Sciences Academic Press, 2019
2019 The Path and Direction of the Study of Social and Economic History of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Forty Years of Reform and Opening-up, Literature, History and Philosophy, No. 5, 2019
2019 My Opinion, "Cambridge Chinese Economic History· from Ancient Times to the 19th Century", Journal of Capital Normal University, No. 6, 2019
2018 Guangzhou Trio: A Perspective on Understanding China's "South", Intellectuals Series, No. 15, Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2018
2018 Growth and Deembedding: Problem Awareness and Approaches to Chinese Economic History Research in the Past 20 Years, Japan: Chinese Historiography, No. 27. In 2018
2018 Milestones in the Study of Fiscal History in the Ming Dynasty - Wan Ming Xu Yingkai, "Collation and Research of Wanli Accounting Records in the Ming Dynasty", Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition), No. 1, 2018
2018 Qingshuijiang Documents and the Local Perspective of Reconstructing Chinese Historical Narratives, Journal of Original Ecological Ethnic Culture, No. 2, 2018
2017 Dynasty Tribute System and Economic History, Theory and Methods of Chinese Economic History Research, China Social Sciences Press, 2017
2017 Follow the path of Chinese economic history research pioneered by our predecessors, China Economic History Review, 2017:1
2017 The Anthropological Approach of Clan Studies: From Friedman's Criticism of Lin Yaohua's Clan Studies, Nanguo Academic, Vol.7, No. 1, 2017
2016 The Transformation of the Nature of Tianfu in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: An Analysis of Huizhou Mansion as an Example, Inheriting the Past and Enlightening the Future: Collected Papers of Academician Wang Yejian, Taipei: Wanjuanlou Books Co., Ltd., 2016
2016 Beyond a Corner of Jiangnan: The Organic Integration of "Jiangnan Coreness" and Global Historical Vision, Exploration and Controversy, No. 4, 2016
2015 Guangzhou and Asia: A Historical Perspective, In Search of Asia – The First Asian Biennale (Guangzhou, ·, China), 2015.
2014 Rethinking the Subject and Universality of History (I), Human Thought, Vol. 1, 2014.
2014 The Transformation of the Meaning of "Official" Temples: An Analysis of the Inscriptions of Chiwan Tianhou Temple, Zheng Zhenman, ed., Research on Inscriptions, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2014.
2014 From "paying grain as an errand boy" to "paying money and grain" - one of the key to the national transformation of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Historical Monthly, No. 7, 2014.
2013 On the Far Reaches of Learning, Lonely and Noble Acquaintances: Reminiscences of a Meeting with Mr. He Bingdi, Chinese Social History Review, Vol. 14, 2013
2013 The Modernity of "Heritage": Preface to "Culture and Objects: The Construction of Foshan Donghuali", Open Times, No. 5, 2013.
2012 The Ancient Lineage in the Genealogy of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Academic Research, No. 1, 2012.
2010 “Women’s Images Reconstructed: The Sisters-in-Law Tomb and Its Legend”, in Helen F. Siu ed., Merchants’daughters: women, commerce, and regional culture in South China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press (in English).
2009 アヘン战争前の广州贸易システムにおける宁波商人——叶名琛档案における宁波商人关联文书から，《大阪市立大学东洋史论丛》别册特集号，《东アジア海域世界における交通 • 交易と国家对外政策》，2009年1月。
2007 “Lineage, Market, Pirate, and Dan: Ethnicity in the Pearl River Aelta of South China”, in Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Siu, Donald S. Sutton (Ed), Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China, University of California Press,1995.(in English, co-authored with Helen Siu)
2006 “From the History of Local Despots to Gentry’s Memory”, Lishi Yanjiu, Vol.,6.
2005 “Historical narrative and Social Truth: Historical Interpretation of the Genealogies of the Pearl River Delta”, Soochow Journal of History,Vol.,14.
2004 “Lineage Law, household register and Lineage, a discussion around the Genealogy of Rao Surname in Chayang Village, Dapu County”, Journal of Sun Yat-sen University, Vol.,4.
2003 “Local Society and the Structuring Process of Culture: the Dialog between History and Anthropology in the Study of the Pearl River Delta”, Lishi Yanjiu, Vol.,1.
2003 “Temples and the Communities’ Relations in Dazhou Island”, in Zheng Zhenman & Chen Chunsheng (Ed), Local Worship and Social Space, Fujian Peoples’ Press.
2002 “Reshaping Female Visualization: the Tale of a Sister-in-Law’s Tomb”, Classics of Chinese Folklore in the 20th Century, Social Sciences Academic Press.
2001 “Beyond the Imperial Metaphor: A Local History of the Beidi” (Northern Emperor) Cult in the Pearl River Delta, Chinese Studies in History (Fall 2001) (in English).
2000 “Zongzu yu difang shehui de guojia rentong -- Ming-Qing Hua’nan zongzu fazhan de yishi xingtai jichu” (Lineage and the identification of state with local society -- the ideological foundations of lineage development in Ming and Qing south China), co-authored with David Faure, Lishi yanjiu, Vol.,3 pp. 3-14.
1999 “Tales, Eisigesis and Historical Truth: Narrative Structure and its Meaning of Lineage History in the Pearl River Delta’s Genealogies”, in The Study of China’s Genealogy, Shanghai: Shanghai Ancient Books Press.
1999 “The State Order in the Territorial Space: Sand land and Min land System in the Pearl River Delta”,The Study of Qing History, Vol.,2.
1995 “Lineage on the Sands: The Case of Shawan, in Helen Siu & David Faure ed. Down to Earth. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1995 (in English).
1994 “Authority and Localization of God: An interpretation of North Emperor’s Worship in the Pearl River Delta”, Collective Journal of History in Sun Yat-sen University, Vol.2, Guangdong People’s Press.
1992 “Reconstruction of Genealogy and its Meaning: a case from the Pearl River Delta”, Social and Economic Research of China,Vol.,4.
1992 “Lineage and the Development of the Sands: a Case Study of He Surname in Shawan Village, Panyu County”, Agricultural History of China, Vol.,4.
