Professor Chow specializes in intellectual and cultural history of Ming Ch'ing China. His current research focuses on the social history of popular religions and intellectual developments in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Selected publications include "Ritual, Cosmology, and Ontology: Chang Tsai's (1020-1077) Moral Philosophy and Neo-Confucian Ethics," Philosophy East and West 48, 2 (April 1993) 201-228; The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics and Lineage Discourse (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994); and "Writing for Success: Examinations Printing, and Intellectual Change in Late Ming China," Late Imperial China 17,1 (June 1996) 120-157. Professor Chow received his doctorate from the University of California, Davis in 1988.