Anthony E. Clark | |||||||
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Born | Eugene, Oregon | 12 March 1967||||||
Spouse | Amanda C. Roth Clark | ||||||
Awards | American Council of Learned Societies Fellow 2012[1] Royal Historical Society Fellow 2021 | ||||||
Academic background | |||||||
Alma mater | University of Oregon | ||||||
Doctoral advisor | Stephen Durrant | ||||||
Academic work | |||||||
Discipline | Chinese history | ||||||
Institutions | Whitworth University | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 柯學斌 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 柯学斌 | ||||||
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Anthony Eugene Clark (born 12 March 1967) is an American Sinologist, historian, and writer who has authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Sino-Western, Sino-Missionary, and ancient Chinese history. He is the Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair and a professor of Chinese history at Whitworth University. He previously taught courses on Chinese history, culture, and literature at the University of Oregon and The University of Alabama. His most widely read books are China's Saints: Catholic Martyrdom during the Qing, Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi,[2] and China Gothic: The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral, which includes a foreword by the architectural historian, Leland M. Roth.[3] Clark's major interest is late-imperial China, especially the final decades of the Qing dynasty, and the intellectual and religious relations between China and the West.[4] Clark resides with his wife, Amanda, in Spokane, Washington.[5]