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Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor Emeritus, History
Highlighted Publications
Chow, K. (1994). The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse. Stanford University Press.
Chow, K. (2004). Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. Stanford University Press.
Recent Publications
Chow, K. W. (2023). Discourse, examination, and local elite: The invention of the T'ung-ch'eng School in Ch'ing China. In Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900 (pp. 183-219). University of California Press.
Chow, K. W. (2023). Imperialism, Reform, and the End of Institutional Confucianism in the Late Qing. In J. Oldstone-Moore (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Confucianism (pp. 191-203). (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190906184.013.7
Chow, K. W. (2019). Identities and literary culture in Qing China: Manchu emperors as Chinese poets, readers, and publishers. Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 6(2), 359-382. https://doi.org/10.1215/23290048-8041957
Chow, K. (2019). Review: J.M. Hargett's Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China. China Review International, 26, 74-78. https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.2019.0008
Chow, K. W. (2017). An alternative hermeneutics of truth: Cui shu's evidential scholarship on confucius. In Interpretation and Intellectual Change: Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective (pp. 19-31). Taylor and Francis.