Poo Mu-chou

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Mu-chou Poo (Chinese :蒲慕州; pinyin :Pú Mùzhōu; born 1952) is a Taiwanese Egyptologist and scholar in Comparative Antiquity. [1] Poo was born in Taiwan and obtained his undergraduate degree from National Taiwan University (1975). After receiving his PhD from Johns Hopkins University (1984), he became a research fellow at the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica (1983–2009). Currently, Poo teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a professor of history. [2]

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  2. "POO Mu-chou". www.history.cuhk.edu.hk.