Philip Alden Kuhn | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 9, 1933 London, England |
| Died | February 11, 2016 (aged 82) |
| Other names | simplified Chinese: 孔飞力 or 孔复礼; traditional Chinese: 孔飛力 or 孔復禮; pinyin: Kǒng Fēilì |
| Citizenship | American |
| Children | Anthony Kuhn |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Georgetown University |
| Doctoral advisor | John King Fairbank, Benjamin I. Schwartz |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History; Sinology |
| Sub-discipline | Qing dynasty history Overseas Chinese history |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Timothy Brook, Timothy Cheek, Prasenjit Duara, William C. Kirby, Daniel Overmyer, Hans van de Ven, Arthur Waldron |
Philip A. Kuhn (September 9, 1933 – February 11, 2016) was an American historian of China[1] and the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.[2]
Kuhn was praised by his colleagues. Frederic Wakeman described Kuhn as "one of the West's premier China historians."[3] Stanford University historian Harold L. Kahn added that “Every twenty years, like clockwork, Philip Kuhn produces a book that we are required to read. What he says sticks to the ribs and gives much pleasure,”[4] and Yale University historian Peter Perdue wrote that Kuhn "shaped the field of Qing history more profoundly than any other scholar of his generation."[5]
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