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Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jung Chang, Pamela Kyle Crossley, John K. Fairbank, Musa Sayrami, Ray Huang, Shen Zhihua, Frederick W. Mote, Denis C. Twitchett, Wang Gungwu, Kim Ho-Dong, Philip A. Kuhn, Kanda Nobuo, Herbert Franke, Edward L. Dreyer, John Dragon Young, Mao Peiqi, Lo Elgan, Kyoji Tan. Excerpt: Denis C. Twitchett Denis Crispin Twitchett (September 23, 1925 February 24, 2006) was a British Sinologist, specialized in Chinese history, famous for his compiled book The Cambridge History of China . Biography Twitchett was born in London in 1925. He was a lecturer at the University of London (1954-56) and Cambridge (1956-60), the Chair of Chinese at the universities of London (1960-68) and Cambridge (1968-80), and the Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University (1980-94). He was a fellow of the British Academy from 1967. He greatly expanded the role of Chinese studies in Western intellectual circles. During World War II, Twitchett took a crash course in Japanese and for the remainder of the war he was part of the Bletchley Park operations acting as a listener at one of the forward listening stations in Sri Lanka . After the war he gained a degree in geography at Cambridge . He also spent a great deal of time in Japan and was able to learn from the best Japanese historians of China (who tended to focus on Tang China, a period which became his field of expertise also). He married the daughter of one of these Japanese historians (Umeko Ichikawa) in 1956. Together they had two children. The Cambridge History of China Main article: The Cambridge History of China Starting in 1966, Professor Twitchett and fellow Sinologist John K. Fairbank (who taught at Harvard ) began plans for the first comprehensive history of China to be published in the English language. Originally expected to be ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Historians of China: Jung Chang, Pamela Kyle Crossley, John K. Fairbank, Musa Sayrami, Ray Huang, Shen Zhihua, Frederick W. Mote. To get started finding Historians of China: Jung Chang, Pamela Kyle Crossley, John K. Fairbank, Musa Sayrami, Ray Huang, Shen Zhihua, Frederick W. Mote, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 68

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Publisher: Books LLC

Release: 2010

ISBN: 1155808827

Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jung Chang, Pamela Kyle Crossley, John K. Fairbank, Musa Sayrami, Ray Huang, Shen Zhihua, Frederick W. Mote, Denis C. Twitchett, Wang Gungwu, Kim Ho-Dong, Philip A. Kuhn, Kanda Nobuo, Herbert Franke, Edward L. Dreyer, John Dragon Young, Mao Peiqi, Lo Elgan, Kyoji Tan. Excerpt: Denis C. Twitchett Denis Crispin Twitchett (September 23, 1925 February 24, 2006) was a British Sinologist, specialized in Chinese history, famous for his compiled book The Cambridge History of China . Biography Twitchett was born in London in 1925. He was a lecturer at the University of London (1954-56) and Cambridge (1956-60), the Chair of Chinese at the universities of London (1960-68) and Cambridge (1968-80), and the Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University (1980-94). He was a fellow of the British Academy from 1967. He greatly expanded the role of Chinese studies in Western intellectual circles. During World War II, Twitchett took a crash course in Japanese and for the remainder of the war he was part of the Bletchley Park operations acting as a listener at one of the forward listening stations in Sri Lanka . After the war he gained a degree in geography at Cambridge . He also spent a great deal of time in Japan and was able to learn from the best Japanese historians of China (who tended to focus on Tang China, a period which became his field of expertise also). He married the daughter of one of these Japanese historians (Umeko Ichikawa) in 1956. Together they had two children. The Cambridge History of China Main article: The Cambridge History of China Starting in 1966, Professor Twitchett and fellow Sinologist John K. Fairbank (who taught at Harvard ) began plans for the first comprehensive history of China to be published in the English language. Originally expected to be ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Historians of China: Jung Chang, Pamela Kyle Crossley, John K. Fairbank, Musa Sayrami, Ray Huang, Shen Zhihua, Frederick W. Mote. To get started finding Historians of China: Jung Chang, Pamela Kyle Crossley, John K. Fairbank, Musa Sayrami, Ray Huang, Shen Zhihua, Frederick W. Mote, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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