#  Prof. Christopher M. B. Nugent 

John W. Chandler Professor of Chinese, Williams College

 

 

 



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Christopher M. B. Nugent is the John W. Chandler Professor of Chinese at Williams. His main research areas are the literary culture of the Tang period (7th–10th cent.), manuscript culture, textual memory and memorization, and medieval educational manuscripts from Dunhuang. His publications include the monographs *Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China* (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010) and *The Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China: Evidence from Dunhuang Manuscripts* (Brill, 2024), and the co-edited volume, *Literary Information in China: A History* (Columbia University Press, 2021).



 

 

 





 

 

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