Stephan Feuchtwang

{{Short description|British researcher}}

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Stephan Feuchtwang (born 1937) is emeritus professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE). His main area of research is China.{{cite web|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/people/feuchtwang.aspx |title=Professor Stephan Feuchtwang - People - Anthropology - Home |website=Lse.ac.uk |date=2015-05-25 |accessdate=2016-06-18}}{{cite web|author=Professor Emeritus Stephan Feuchtwang |url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/profile.aspx?KeyValue=s.feuchtwang%40lse.ac.uk |title=Profile - Experts - Research and expertise - Home |website=Lse.ac.uk |date=2015-05-22 |accessdate=2016-06-18}}

He was born in Berlin in 1937, the son of Wilhelm Feuchtwang and Eva Neurath.{{cite web|url=http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/DO/filmshow/feuchtwang1_fast.htm |title=Stephan Feuchtwang |website=Alanmacfarlane.com |date= |accessdate=2016-06-18}}{{cite news|last1=Plante|first1=David|title=Eva Neurath|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jan/06/guardianobituaries|accessdate=18 June 2016|work=The Guardian|date=6 January 2000}} His grandfather, David Feuchtwang, was the chief rabbi of Vienna.{{cite book|author=Peter Unwin|title=Newcomers' Lives: The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VfpLAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA149|date=31 January 2013|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4411-5917-5|pages=149–150}} Feuchtwang is the author of books on Chinese popular religion, feng shui, and (with Wang Mingming) a book on local leadership: Grassroots Charisma in southern Fujian and northern Taiwan.{{cite web|url=http://www.mei.edu/profile/stephan-feuchtwang |title=Stephan Feuchtwang | Middle East Institute |website=Mei.edu |date=2015-12-03 |accessdate=2016-06-18}}