Choi Chi-cheung蔡志祥

Style & Daoist names

Choi Chi-cheung

Period

Contemporary

Dates

? — ?

Role

Historical AnthropologistProfessor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Birthplace

Hong Kong

Life

Choi Chi-cheung is a Hong Kong historian, Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and one of the leading figures in the historical anthropology of South China, researching local society, lineage, festivals, and jiao (offering) rituals in South China. His book Dajiao: Xianggang de Jieri he Diyu Shehui [Da Jiao: Festival and Local Society in Hong Kong] (2000) takes the Da Tsiu (Great Offering) rites of Peace and Purification in Hong Kong's New Territories as its subject, analyzing the relationship between Daoist offering rituals and local social organization and lineage power — a classic in the social history of Hong Kong Daoist ritual. Working with John Lagerwey, David Faure, and others on 'South China Research,' he has served as co-editor of works such as Yishi yu Keyi: Xianggang Xinjie de Zhengyi Qingjiao [Ritual and Liturgy: The Zhengyi Purification Offering of Hong Kong's New Territories] (co-edited with Wai Kam-san and others) and Yanxu yu Biange: Xianggang Shequ Jianjiao Chuantong de Minzuzhi [Continuity and Change: An Ethnography of Community Jiao Traditions in Hong Kong], among others. The above is drawn from publicly available academic information.

Contributions & Influence

• Wrote Da Jiao, studying Hong Kong's Great Offering rites of Peace and Purification and local society
• Advanced the historical anthropology of South China and the study of Daoist ritual
• Worked with John Lagerwey, David Faure, and others to advance South China Research

Works

• Da Jiu: Festivals and Territorial Society in Hong Kong
• Ritual and Liturgy: Zhengyi Purity Offerings in Hong Kong's New Territories (co-editor)
• Continuity and Change (co-editor)