Herbert P. Bix

Herbert P. Bix
Born1938 (age 85–86)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Harvard University (PhD)
OccupationHistorian
Notable workHirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (2000)
AwardsPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2001)

Herbert P. Bix (born 1938)[1] is an American historian. He wrote Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, an account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2001.

Bix was born in Boston and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1] He earned the PhD in history and Far Eastern languages from Harvard University. He was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars. For several decades, he has written about modern and contemporary Japanese history in the United States and Japan.

He has taught at many universities, including Hosei University in Japan in the years 1986 through 1990,[2] and Hitotsubashi University in 2001.[1] As of 2013, he is Professor Emeritus in History and Sociology at Binghamton University.[3]

His book Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590–1884 was hailed as 'a sensitive rendering of the actions of great masses of people' and a superior 'Marxist history'.[4]

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  2. ^ Boscaro, Adriana; Gatti, Franco; Raveri, Massimo (1990). Rethinking Japan: Social sciences, ideology & thought. ISBN 9780904404791.
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  4. ^ Goldstone, Jack A. (1987). "Review of Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590-1884". Theory and Society. 16 (5): 771–774. doi:10.1007/BF00133395. ISSN 0304-2421. JSTOR 657682. S2CID 189891365.