Stephan Feuchtwang (born 1937) is emeritus professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE). His main area of research is China.^[1][2]

He was born in Berlin in 1937, the son of Wilhelm Feuchtwang and Eva Neurath.^[3][4] His grandfather, David Feuchtwang, was the chief rabbi of Vienna.^[5] 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.^[6]

Bibliography (selected)

• with Charlotte Bruckermann: The Anthropology of China. China as ethnographic and theoretical critique, Imperial College Press 2016, ISBN 978-1-78326-982-2.
• After the Event. The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan, berghahn 2011, ISBN 978-0-85745-086-9.
• The Anthropology of Religion, Charisma and Ghosts, De Gruyter 2010, ISBN 9783110223552.
• with Wang Mingming: Grassroots Charisma. Four Local Leaders in China, Routledge 2002, ISBN 9780415865579.
• The Imperial Metaphor: Popular Religion in China, Routledge 1992, ISBN 978-0415021463.