Dr. Marco Caboara is the Manager (Digital Scholarship and Archives) at the Lee Shau Kee Library, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. As manager of the Archives he is also in charge of the Library Special Collections, most prominently of the Antique Maps of China Collection.
He studied in Italy, Taiwan, Beijing and Hong Kong, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle with a study of the linguistic features of Classical Chinese Bamboo Manuscripts. He has been a Research Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, Uppsala, Sweden.
He has just completed a comprehensive carto-bibliography of Western printed maps of China from 1580 to 1735, to be soon published by Brill and has presented earliest stages of the book project at major international map conferences in Amsterdam, Berlin, Macau and Shanghai.
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