David William Faure (born 1947) is a Hong Kong historical anthropologist, and is an expert in the economic and social history of Southern China.
He graduated from St. Paul's College and the Department of History of the University of Hong Kong, and later obtained a PhD in sociology from Princeton University.
From 1990 to 2006, he lectured Modern Chinese History at St. Anthony College, Oxford University,[1][2] where he is now an Emeritus Fellow.
From 2010 to 2017, he led the project "The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society" commissioned by the Hong Kong Government.
[4] He is currently a professor in the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK),[5] and an editor of the Journal of History and Anthropology (Chinese:歷史人類學學刊)[2] as well as a director of the Centre for China Studies, CUHK.