Dr Stephen McDowall
Dr Stephen McDowall is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow within the Department of History. He has a PhD in Chinese Studies (2007) from Victoria University of Wellington, and specialises in the history of Ming-Qing China, the literature of travel, Asia in the European imagination, and Ming material & visual culture. His current project, 'Landscape & Power in Early Modern China,' funded by the Leverhulme Trust, examines the ways in which knowledge about landscape was produced, transmitted and given legitimacy in Ming-Qing China, c. 1560-1780.
Recent Activities:
Co-convenor, 'Landscape, City & Space in Modern China, 1500-2000
,' workshop at the Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava, Venice, 2-4 February 2012.
Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded project 'Global Jingdezhen: Local Manufactures and Early Modern Global Connections' led by Dr Anne Gerritsen, 2009-11.
'Commodore Anson’s (1697-1762) Cantonese Porcelain and Two Competing Histories of a Diplomatic Exchange of 1743,' paper presented at 'Courts & Luxury in the Early Modern World,' international workshop at the European University Institute, Fiesole, 20-21 June 2011.
Co-editor, 'Global China: Material Culture & Connections in World History,' forthcoming special issue of Journal of World History 23.1 (March 2012).
'Selecting from Amongst the Ten Thousand Things: Some Thoughts on Mass Production and Creativity in Early Modern China, c. 1580-1780,' paper presented as part of the V&A / IHR 'Early Modern Material Cultures' seminar series, Institute of Historical Research, London, 11 May 2011.
Convenor, 'Global Art? China and Europe in Early Modern Material & Visual Culture,' GHCC workshop, 25 February 2011.
,' GHCC workshop, 25 February 2011.Co-curator, 'Chinese Ceramics & the Early Modern World,' exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 4 September 2010 - 6 March 2011.
,' exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 4 September 2010 - 6 March 2011.'Porcelain in European Accounts of Qing China, 1650-1800,' paper presented (with Anne Gerritsen) at the British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, Bristol, 8-9 September 2010.
Co-convenor, 'Cultures of Ceramics in Global History, 1300-1800,' international conference at the University of Warwick, 22-24 April 2010.
,' international conference at the University of Warwick, 22-24 April 2010.'Jingdezhen Artisans and the Late-Ming Literary World,' paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 25-28 March 2010.
Co-convenor of the Early Career Researchers' Group, Faculty of Arts, 2009-10.
'Naming & Meaning in Late-Ming Material Culture,' paper presented at the Fourth Joint East Asian Studies Conference, Sheffield, 8-10 September 2009.
Participant in 'Global Arts: Exchange & Innovation of Visual & Material Culture Across the World,' summer school, Venice, 25-31 March 2009.
,' summer school, Venice, 25-31 March 2009.Member of the departmental Research Committee, 2009-12.
Publications since 2008:
'Material Culture and the Other: European Encounters with Chinese Porcelain, c. 1650-1800' (with Anne Gerritsen), forthcoming in Journal of World History 23.1 (March 2012): 87-113.
'Global China: Material Culture & Connections in World History' (with Anne Gerritsen), forthcoming in Journal of World History 23.1 (March 2012): 3-8.
Review of Marcia Reed & Paola Demattè eds., China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2011), Asian Studies Review (forthcoming).
Review of Cong Ellen Zhang, Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011), China Review International 17.3 (forthcoming): 387-90.
'West Lake in the Song Dynasty: A Late-Ming Traveller's Account,' China Heritage Quarterly 28 (December 2011).
(December 2011).Review of James M. Hargett, Riding the River Home: A Complete and Annotated Translation of Fan Chengda's (1126-1193) Diary of a Boat Trip to Wu (Wuchuan lu) (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008), New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 12.1 (June 2010): 130-32.
Review of Weijing Lu, True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), Gender and History 22.2 (August 2010): 513-14.
Qian Qianyi’s Reflections on Yellow Mountain: Traces of a Late-Ming Hatchet and Chisel. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-962-209-084-2. Purchase this book on Amazon.co.uk.
.Review of Zhou Daguan, A Record of Cambodia: The Land and its People, translated with an introduction and notes by Peter Harris (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2007), New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 11.2 (Dec 2009): 235-37.
'Landscape, Culture & Power: The View from Seventeenth-Century Yellow Mountain,' China Heritage Quarterly 18 (June 2009).
(June 2009).'Recent Re-visions of Ming History,' New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 10.2 (Dec 2008): 121-31.
Undergraduate Teaching:
The Rise of Modern China: 1985-Present (HI168)
Room H013
Department of HistoryUniversity of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Tel. +44 (0)24 76150991
s.j.mcdowall@warwick.ac.uk
Office hours: Wednesdays 11am-12pm,
or by appointment
