Stephen Mcdowall
professor
Global History and Culture
The University of Warwick
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr McDowall is a cultural historian of late-imperial China based in the School of History, Classics & Archaeology. His research interests include travel writing, material culture and China in the early-modern European imagination, and he is the author of Qian Qianyi's Reflections on Yellow Mountain: Traces of a Late-Ming Hatchet and Chisel (2009). He is particularly interested in xylography and the expansion of the reading public during the Ming period (1368-1644), and he has published on the oldest printed book (an early-Ming imprint dated 1440) in the Edinburgh University Library and its cultural and social significance:
Research Interest
Research interests include History, Classics and Archaeology.
Publications
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Li HL. The Thoughts in Wangbi's An Annotation of Zhouyi.
