Pen name Timothy Brook Name Timothy Brook Genre History | Nationality Canadian | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Vermeer's Hat, Mr Selden's Map of C, The Confusions of Pleasure, Death by a Thousand Cuts, The Troubled Empire Similar People Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, Philip A Kuhn, Edward A McCord, William T Rowe, Diana Lary | ||
Timothy brook the university of british columbia
Timothy James Brook (Chinese name: 卜正民; born January 6, 1951), is a Canadian historian specializing in the study of China (sinology). He holds the Republic of China Chair, Department of History, University of British Columbia.
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- Timothy brook the university of british columbia
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- Early life and education
- Academic positions
- Selected honors
- Editorial positions
- Publications
- Books written
- Books edited
- Awards
- References
His research interests include the social and cultural history of the Ming Dynasty in China; law and punishment in Imperial China; collaboration during Japan's wartime occupation of China, 1937–45 and war crimes trials in Asia; global history; and historiography.
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Early life and education
Timothy Brook was born on January 6, 1951 in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, grew up in that city and currently lives in Vancouver.
After graduating from the University of Toronto Schools, Brook received a bachelor's degree in English literature at the University of Toronto in 1973; a master's degree in Regional Studies–East Asia at Harvard University in 1977, and in 1984 received a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University, where his dissertation advisor was Philip A. Kuhn .
Academic positions
From 1984–86 Brook was a MacTaggart Fellow at the University of Alberta; from 1986–97 he progressed from Assistant to Full Professor at the University of Toronto; from 1997–99 he was Professor of History at Stanford University, and 1999-2004 he was Professor of History at the University of Toronto, and Shaw Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford. He came to University of British Columbia in 2004, and was Principal, St. John's College 2004-2009. He is also Academic Director of the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at the University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research. He was elected President of the Association for Asian Studies 2015.
Selected honors
Editorial positions
American Historical Review, 2012--; Handbook of Oriental Studies, Brill, Leiden; Studies in Comparative Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; International Journal of Asian Studies, University of Tokyo; Journal of Ming Studies, Taipei; Ming Studies, Society for Ming Studies, New Mexico State University; Shilin 史林 (Historical studies), Shanghai. Since 2008, he has been Editor-in-chief of The History of Imperial China, a six-volume series published by Harvard University Press.
Publications
Brook's scholarly publications in the fields of Asian social, economic and legal history and international trade include:
Books written
Books edited
Awards
In 2009, Vermeer's Hat won Brook the Mark Lynton History Prize from Columbia University in New York, worth $10,000 (U.S.). The prize is one of the Lukas Prize Project awards. The book was described as a "bold, original and compulsively readable work of history."
Death by a Thousand Cuts was a finalist and received an honourable mention for the Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers 2008 PROSE Award, in the World History and Biography/Autobiography category.