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David Ownby

David Ownby (born 1958) is an American‑Canadian historian of Chinese religion and a specialist in modern Chinese popular movements. He is professor emeritus of history at the Université de Montréal and research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Ownby’s scholarship has contributed to Western understanding of Qing‑period secret societies, Falun Gong and contemporary Chinese intellectual landscape. Provided by Wikipedia