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Yewong Dongchung is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at Brown University, specializing in early modern Tibetan and Chinese cultural history with a focus on material culture, science and technology, and borderlands dynamics. Her work critiques colonial and progressive historiographies, centering Tibetan agency in the global history of print technology.
Her research explores Tibetan-language woodblock printing from the 17th-19th centuries across Tibet, Sino-Tibetan borderlands, and Qing-era Buddhist spaces. She analyzes how monastic elites leveraged printing's permanence to preserve Buddhist knowledge, revealing artisans' technical expertise and their engagement with materiality. Current projects include preparing her dissertation for publication and a new investigation into Tibetan Buddhist art production within Beijing's Qing Imperial workshops (1644-1911).
Engaging museum collections, her studies interrogate colonialism and secularism's entanglement in object curation. At Brown, she bridges material culture analysis with global intellectual history, offering fresh perspectives on premodern technological exchanges.
