Arif Dirlik | |
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Born | |
Died | December 1, 2017 Eugene, Oregon, United States | (aged 77)
Education |
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Alma mater | Robert College, University of Rochester |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History of China, postcolonialism, Marxism |
Institutions | Duke University University of Oregon Centre for the Study of Developing Societies University of British Columbia |
Thesis | Revolution and History: Debates on Chinese Social History, 1928–1933[1] |
Doctoral advisor | Ralph Croizier[2] |
Arif Dirlik (/ˈɑːrifˈdiːrlik/; 23 November 1940[3] – 1 December 2017) was a Turkish-American historian who published on historiography and political ideology in modern China, as well as issues in modernity, globalization, and postcolonial criticism. Dirlik received a BSc in electrical engineering at Robert College, Istanbul in 1964 and a PhD in history at the University of Rochester in 1973.