Paul Copp

Paul Copp’s main research interests are on intellectual, material, and visual cultures of Chinese religion and the paleography and archaeology of Dunhuang and the eastern “silk roads”. Copp focuses on the history of religion practice in China and eastern Central Asia during the period stretching from the eighth through the thirteenth centuries. He is most interested in the study of visual and material sources especially of the manuscripts and xylographs discovered at the “silk road” sites of Dunhuang, Turfan, and Khara-khoto, but also of cave- and cliff-shrines and tombs across the region.