David Palmer

David Palmer

Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Hong Kong University

David A. Palmer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong University. From 2004 to 2008 he was a research fellow at the Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies), where he was director of its Hong Kong centre. In addition to 13 articles and book chapters, he is the author of Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China (Columbia University Press, 2007) and is currently completing book manuscripts on The Religious Question in Modern China (with Vincent Goossaert ) and Global Taoism: the Search for Authenticity (with Elijah Siegler).