Yewong Tenzin Dongchung is a cultural historian of early modern Tibet and China specializing in material culture studies, history of science and technology, and borderlands history. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown. Yewong is preparing her first book manuscript Carvers and Print Workshops: The History of Tibetan-language Woodblock Printing Technology, which traces the development of Tibetan-language printing houses from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries across Tibet, Sino-Tibetan borderlands, and Buddhist spaces in Qing China. Her research highlights artisans’ material knowledge, monastic engagement with print, and how concerns for posterity and permanence shaped their practices. Resisting colonial narratives of science and technology and progressive narratives of modernism, her work seeks to position Tibetan-language woodblock printing in the global history of print technology. Yewong works closely with museum collections on Tibetan materials and engages with the connected histories of colonialism and secularism in dealing with the collected objects. She earned her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College.
Yewong Tenzin Dongchung
