Timothy Brook
Born Timothy James Brook (1951-01-06 ) January 6, 1951 (age 73)
Toronto ,
Ontario , Canada Occupation Sinologist, historian, writer Language
English ,
Chinese ,
French ,
Japanese Alma mater Genre History Subject Sinology; cultural, economic, legal and social history; world trade and globalization Notable works
Books by the author
www .timothybrook .com
Timothy James Brook (
Chinese name: 卜正民; born January 6, 1951) is a Canadian
historian , sinologist, and writer specializing in the study of
China (
sinology ).
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[4] He holds the Republic of China Chair, Department of History,
University of British Columbia .
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, the
Nanjing massacre , and Japanese
war crimes trials; global history; and
historiography .
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.
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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 .
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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,
[6] and
Shaw Professor of Chinese at the
University of Oxford .
[7] He came to
University of British Columbia in 2004, and was Principal,
St. John's College 2004–2009.
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[6] He is also Academic Director of the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at the University of British Columbia's
Institute of Asian Research .
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He was elected President of the
Association for Asian Studies 2015.
Selected honors
2010 D.Litt., honoris causa,
University of Warwick
2010
Prix Auguste Pavie ,
Académie des sciences d'outre-mer , Paris, for Le Chapeau de Vermee r
2009
Mark Lynton Prize in History , Columbia University School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, for Vermeer's Hat
2009
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize , Canadian Historical Association, for Death by a Thousand Cuts
2006
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2005
François-Xavier Garneau Medal , Canadian Historical Association., for The Confusions of Pleasure
2000
Joseph Levenson Prize , Association for Asian Studies, for The Confusions of Pleasure
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 .
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Publications
Brook's scholarly publications in the fields of
Asian
social ,
economic and
legal history and
international trade include:
Books written
Geographical Sources of Ming-Qing History . Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies,
University of Michigan , 1988. Second expanded edition, 2002.
Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement . New York:
Oxford University Press , Toronto: Lester Publishing, 1992; Stanford:
Stanford University Press , 1998.
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Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China . Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies,
Harvard University , 1993.
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(in Chinese) Wei quanli qidao: fojiao yu wan Ming Zhongguo shishen shehui de xingcheng . Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2005.
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The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China . Berkeley:
University of California Press , 1998. Winner of the
Joseph Levenson Book Prize of 2000.
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(in Czech) Čtvero ročních dob dynastie Ming: Čína v období 1368–1644 . Prague: Vyšehrad, 2003.
(in Chinese) Zongle de kunhuo: Mingdai de shangye yu wenhua . Beijing: Sanlian, Taipei: Linking, 2004.
(in Korean) K'waerak ǔi hondon: Chungguk Myǒngdaeǔi sangǒp kwa munhwa . Seoul: Yeesan, 2005.
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Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China . Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press , 2005.
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The Chinese State in Ming Society . London:
Routledge Curzon, 2005.
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World . New York: Bloomsbury; Toronto:
Penguin ; London: Profile, 2008.
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(in French) Le chapeau de Vermeer : Le XVIIe siècle à l'aube de la mondialisation . France: Payot, 2010.
(in Italian) Il cappello di Vermeer : il Seicento e la nascita del mondo globalizzato . Turin: Einaudi, 2015.
Death by a Thousand Cuts , with Jérôme Bourgon and Gregory Blue. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008.
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The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010; Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Belknap Press , 2013.
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Mr. Selden's Map of China. Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer . New York, Bloomsbury, 2013.
ISBN
978-1-62040-143-9
(in Italian) La mappa della Cina del signor Selden : il commercio delle spezie, una carta perduta e il Mar Cinese Meridionale . Turin: Einaudi, 2016.
Great State: China and the World . London, Profile Books, 2019.
ISBN
978-1-78125-828-6 <
https://profilebooks.com/great-state.html >
Books edited
The Asiatic Mode of Production in China . Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1989.
National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China , by Min Tu-ki. Co- edited with
Philip Kuhn . Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1989.
Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia . Co-edited with Hy Van Luong. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Civil Society in China . Co-edited with B. Michael Frolic. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.
China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge . Co-edited with Gregory Blue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
(in Chinese) Zhongguo yu lishi zibenzhuyi: hanxue zhishi de xipuxue . Taipei: Chu liu tushu gongsi, 2004. Simplified character edition: Shanghai: Xinxing chubanshe, 2005.
Documents on the Rape of Nanking . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
(in Chinese) Expanded Chinese translation: Nanjing datusha yingwen shiliao ji . Taipei: Shangwu yinshuguan, 2007.
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Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities . Co-edited with Andre Schmid. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
(in Chinese) Minzu de goujian: Yazhou jingying ji qi minzu rentong , 2008.
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Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952 . Co-edited with Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
The History of Imperial China (6 vols). Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2008-). Editor-in-chief from 2008 to date.
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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.
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[32] The book was described as a "bold, original and compulsively readable work of history."
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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.
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