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Current Member

Margaret B Wan

Roger E. Covey Member in East Asian Studies; additional funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of study

Chinese Literature and Cultural History

Home institution

University of Utah
Margaret Wan is writing a book on the development of concepts of individual agency as witnessed in the changing content of Chinese short stories and their transmission from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. This research explores the key role access to books played in shifting ideas and the influence of expanding access to print on the integration of Chinese culture.

Visits

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

Harvard University
Ph.D.
2000