Kenneth Dean

James McGill Professor, Drs. Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair of Chinese Cultural Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University

Kenneth Dean is James McGill Professor and Drs. Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair of Chinese Cultural Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies of McGill University. He is the author of seven books, including The Return of the Gods: introduction to a survey of village temples, regional alliances, and ritual activities in Putian, Fujian, China, and Ritual Networks: A survey of village ritual alliances in the irrigated alluvial Putian plain, both forthcoming from E.J. Brill in Leiden. He is also the author of over forty articles on various aspects of Daoist ritual and local ritual traditions of Southeast China.