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Lianbin Dai

Ambrose College

Education

Doctoral

2007 – 2012

D. Phil in Oriental Studies

University of Oxford

Experience

Lecturer in Chinese Studies

University of Victoria

2019 – Present

Research Associate

York University, York Centre for Asian Research (Toronto, Canada)

2018 – Present

Instructor in History

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

2016 – 2016

Curator in the Mactaggart Art Collection

University of Alberta, the University of Alberta Museums

2015 – 2016

College Fellow in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Harvard University

2013 – 2014

Consultant, Appraiser, Bibliographer of Chinese Bibliographical Documents

The University of British Columbia, Asian Library, and Rare Books & Special Collections (RBSC)

2012 – 2014

Postdoctoral Fellow

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG, Berlin, Germany)

2012 – 2012

Departmental Instructor

University of Oxford, Faculty of Oriental Studies

2008 – 2009

Publications

Review of Home and the World: Editing the “Glorious Ming” in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Yuming He (Cambridge, MA: The Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2013). The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 77.2 (June): 415-17.

Review of Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China , 1100-1700 by Joseph Dennis (Cambridge, MA: The Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2015). Ming Studies (Fall) 74:72-86.

Review of The History of the Book in East Asia , edited by Cynthia Brokaw and Peter Kornicki (The History of the Book in the East Series. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2013). Library & Information History 30.4 (November): 297-99.