Timothy Brook

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Timothy Brook (2008)

Timothy Brook (born January 6, 1951 in Toronto ) is a Canadian historian specializing in East Asian history.

Life

Timothy Brook studied history at the University of Toronto and Harvard University and received his PhD from Harvard in 1984.

He was a lecturer and then professor from 1986 in Toronto, at Stanford University from 1997 to 1999 and then again in Toronto. Since 2004 he has been Professor of History at the University of British Columbia . 2007 to 2009 he was Shaw Professor of Chinese at the University College of the University of Oxford .

Brook is considered the authority on the history of the Ming period (1368-1644). He has also researched and published on recent periods of East Asian history and, in addition to specialist literature, has also published books for a larger audience. In 2013 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada .

His book The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China received the François-Xavier Garneau Medal from the Canadian Historical Association in 2005 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Mr. Selden's Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer . Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, New York 2013.
    • How China came to Europe. Mr. Selden's unheard-of card . Translated from the English by Robin Cackett. Wagenbach, Berlin 2015.
  • The Troubled Empire. China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2010.
  • Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World . Bloomsbury, New York 2008.
    • Vermeer's hat. The 17th century and the beginning of the global world . Translated from the English by Norbert Hofmann. Ed. Tiamat, Berlin 2009.
  • with Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue: Death by a Thousand Cuts . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2008.
  • The Chinese State in Ming Society . Routledge Curzon, London 2005.
  • Collaboration. Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2005.
  • The Confusions of Pleasure. Commerce and Culture in Ming China . University of California Press, Berkeley 1998.
  • Praying for Power. Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in the Late-Ming China . Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.) 1993.
  • Selling the People. The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement . Oxford University Press, New York 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Osterhammel : What you can find in Oxford cellars. Review, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 10, 2015, p. L16.
  2. ↑ RSC Class of 2013. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 9, 2016 ; accessed on September 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rsc-src.ca
  3. ^ The François-Xavier Garneau Medal , website of the Canadian Historical Association
personal data
SURNAME Brook, Timothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto