Departmental homepageProfessor Adam Yuet Chau grew up in Beijing and Hong Kong and received his academic training in Anthropology at Stanford University in the USA. He joined the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge in 2008 and has been a Fellow of St John's College since 2014.
Professor Chau offers undergraduate and MPhil papers on contemporary Chinese culture and society and supervises MPhil and PhD work on various topics ranging from ritual and religion to language politics and cultural history.
His primary research interests lie in generating new concepts and theories based on Chinese and comparative ethnographic and historical materials. His topical interests include religion, state-society relations, cultural history, language politics, etc.
Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China. Stanford University Press (2006)
Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation. (edited) Routledge (2011)
Chinese Religious Culture in 100 Objects. (edited) Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
