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Kai-wing
Chow
(Ph.D.
California-Davis)
Professor EALC and History; Curator, Spurlock Museum:
Premodern China, premodern Chinese thought, the impact of
printing on cultural production in sixteenth and seventeenth
century China, politics of identity formation, power relations
in cross-cultural translation and the politics of knowledge
making.
217-244-7527
kchow1@uiuc.edu
http://www.history.uiuc.edu/fac_dir/chow_dir/chow.htm
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Professor
Chow specializes in intellectual and cultural history of imperial
China. His research interests include the politics and forms
of knowledge production, identity formation, as well as material
and symbolic forms of power. Current research interests focus
on the impact of printing in Ming Qing China and Europe. In
2007 he published a chapter, "Reinventing Gutenberg: Woodblock
and Movable Type Printing in China and Europe," in the
volume, Agent of Change: Twenty-five Years of Print Culture
Studies, (Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist, and Eleanor
F. Shevlin, eds. Amherst, MA & Washington, DC: University
of Massachusetts Press and the Center for the Book at the Library
of Congress), a collection of essays published to commemorate
the 25th anniversary of Elizabeth Eisenstein's class work, The
Printing Press as an Agent of Change. Professor Chow's first
book on the impact of printing in China entitled Printing,
Culture, and Power in Early Modern China was published in
2004 (Stanford University Press; revised paperback edition 2007).
His other publications include: The Rise of Confucian Ritualism
in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics and Lineage Discourse
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994; paperback edition,
1996); Imagining Boundaries of Confucianism: Texts, Doctrines,
and Practices in Late Imperial China, co-edited with On-cho
Ng and John Henderson (State University of New York Press, 1999);
"Ritual, Cosmology, and Ontology: Chang Tsai's (1020-1077)
Moral Philosophy and Neo-Confucian Ethics," Philosophy
East and West 48, 2 (April 1993) 201-228. Professor Chow
received his doctorate from the University of California, Davis
in 1988.
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