Bill McCann

SENIOR EDITOR EMERITUS, CHINA

Contributions to IDEA:
Anhui 2 | Anhui 3 | Anhui 4 | Anhui 5 | Anhui 6 | Gansu 1 | Gansu 2 | Gansu 3 | Guangdong 1 | Guangdong 2 | Guangdong 3 | Guangxi 1 | Guangxi 2 | Guangxi 3 | Guangxi 4 | Guangxi 5 | Guangxi 6 | Guangxi 7 | Guangxi 8 | Guangxi 9 | Guangxi 10 | Guangxi 11 | Guangxi 12 | Guizhou 1 | Hebei 1 | Hebei 2 | Hebei 3 | Hebei 4 | Hebei 5 | Hebei 6 | Heilongjiang 1 | Heilongjiang 2 | Heilongjiang 3 | Heilongjiang 4 | Henan 1 | Henan 2 | Henan 3 | Hubei 2 | Hunan 1 | Hunan 2 | Jiangsu 3 | Jiangsu 4 | Jiangsu 5 | Jiangsu 6 | Jiangsu 7 | Jiangsu 8 | Jiangsu 9 | Jiangsu 10 | Jiangsu 11 | Jiangsu 12 | Jiangsu 13 | Jiangsu 14 | Jiangsu 15 | Jiangsu 16 | Jiangsu 17 | Jiangsu 18 | Jiangsu 19 | Jiangsu 20 | Jiangsu 21 | Jiangsu 22 | Jiangsu 23 | Jiangsu 24 | Jiangsu 25 | Jiangsu 26 | Jiangsu 27 | Jiangsu 28 | Jiangsu 29 | Jiangsu 30 | Jiangsu 31 | Jiangsu 32 | Jiangsu 33 | Jiangsu 34 | Jiangsu 35 | Jiangsu 36 | Jiangsu 37 | Jiangsu 38 | Jiangsu 39 | Jiangsu 40 | Jiangsu 41 | Liaoning 1 | Liaoning 2 | Liaoning 3 | Shandong 1 | Sichuan 1 | Sichuan 2 | Sichuan 3 | Xinjiang 1 | Xinjiang 2 | Xinjiang 3 | Xinjiang 4 | Xinjiang 5 | Zhejiang 1 | Zhejiang 2 | Zhejiang 3

Bio: Bill, who passed away in 2019, was one of our most prolific editors and worked tirelessly to document accents of those living in China. He was awarded a professorship at Hezhou University in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. He taught in both the English and science departments and collaborated with the linguistics department in their field research into the dialects of Guangxi, and of the Hezhou region in particular.

Following his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Galway, Ireland, Bill lectured and carried out research at Imperial College, London. He then moved into archaeology and established a geophysical laboratory and archaeomagnetic dating facility at the Museum of London. He set up similar facilities at a university in Romania during his extensive archaeological research work across Europe.

Bill also wrote in his spare time. He published a book on the Blue Plaques of London and also wrote a crime novel combining the Western and Chinese traditions of this genre.

Bill lived for many years in China and owned his own property there, which he shared with his library of more than 3,000 books.