Frances Wood | |
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 Wood being honoured in 2015 at the graduation ceremony of SOAS | |
| Born | 1948 (age 75–76) London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Librarian |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge (PhD) |
| Thesis | Domestic Architecture in the Beijing Area, 1860–1930 (1983) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | Chinese history |
| Institutions | |
Frances Wood (Chinese: 吴芳思; pinyin: Wú Fāngsī; born 1948) is an English librarian, sinologue and historian known for her writings on Chinese history, including Marco Polo, life in the Chinese treaty ports, and the First Emperor of China.
- ^ "Frances Wood". In Our Time. 24 May 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.