Timothy Brook
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Born | Timothy James Brook January 6, 1951 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Sinologist, historian, writer |
Language | English, Chinese, French, Japanese |
Alma mater | |
Genre | History |
Subject | Sinology; cultural, economic, legal and social history; world trade and globalization |
Notable works | Books by the author |
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Timothy James Brook (Chinese name: 卜正民; born January 6, 1951) is a Canadian historian, sinologist, and writer specializing in the study of China (sinology).[1][2][3][4] He holds the Republic of China Chair, Department of History, University of British Columbia.
His research interests include the
Early life and education
Timothy Brook was born on January 6, 1951, in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, grew up in that city and currently lives in Vancouver.[1][5]
After graduating from the
Academic positions
From 1984–86 Brook was a MacTaggart Fellow at the University of Alberta; from 1986–97 he progressed from Assistant to Full Professor at the University of Toronto; from 1997–99 he was Professor of History at Stanford University, and 1999–2004 he was Professor of History at the University of Toronto,[6] and Shaw Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford.[7] He came to University of British Columbia in 2004, and was Principal, St. John's College 2004–2009.[4][6] He is also Academic Director of the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at the University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research.[8] He was elected President of the Association for Asian Studies 2015.
Selected honors
- 2010 D.Litt., honoris causa, University of Warwick
- 2010 Prix Auguste Pavie, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, Paris, for Le Chapeau de Vermeer
- 2009 Mark Lynton Prize in History, Columbia University School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, for Vermeer's Hat
- 2009 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association, for Death by a Thousand Cuts
- 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- 2005 François-Xavier Garneau Medal, Canadian Historical Association., for The Confusions of Pleasure
- 2000 Joseph Levenson Prize, Association for Asian Studies, for The Confusions of Pleasure
Editorial positions
Publications
Brook's scholarly publications in the fields of Asian social, economic and legal history and international trade include:
Books written
- Geographical Sources of Ming-Qing History. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1988. Second expanded edition, 2002.
- Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, Toronto: Lester Publishing, 1992; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.[10][11][12][13][14]
- Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1993.[15][16][17][18]
- (in Chinese) Wei quanli qidao: fojiao yu wan Ming Zhongguo shishen shehui de xingcheng. Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2005.[9]
- The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Winner of the Joseph Levenson Book Prize of 2000.[19]
- (in Czech) Čtvero ročních dob dynastie Ming: Čína v období 1368–1644. Prague: Vyšehrad, 2003.
- (in Chinese) Zongle de kunhuo: Mingdai de shangye yu wenhua. Beijing: Sanlian, Taipei: Linking, 2004.
- (in Korean) K'waerak ǔi hondon: Chungguk Myǒngdaeǔi sangǒp kwa munhwa. Seoul: Yeesan, 2005.[9]
- Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005.[20][21][22][23][24]
- The Chinese State in Ming Society. London: Routledge Curzon, 2005.[25][26]
- Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. New York: Bloomsbury; Toronto: Penguin; London: Profile, 2008.[3][4]
- (in French) Le chapeau de Vermeer : Le XVIIe siècle à l'aube de la mondialisation. France: Payot, 2010.
- (in Italian) Il cappello di Vermeer : il Seicento e la nascita del mondo globalizzato. Turin: Einaudi, 2015.
- Death by a Thousand Cuts, with Jérôme Bourgon and Gregory Blue. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008.[27][28]
- Mr. Selden's Map of China. Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer. New York, Bloomsbury, 2013. ISBN 978-1-62040-143-9
- (in Italian) La mappa della Cina del signor Selden : il commercio delle spezie, una carta perduta e il Mar Cinese Meridionale. Turin: Einaudi, 2016.
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Books edited
- The Asiatic Mode of Production in China. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1989.
- National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China, by Min Tu-ki. Co- edited with Philip Kuhn. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1989.
- Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia. Co-edited with Hy Van Luong. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
- Civil Society in China. Co-edited with B. Michael Frolic. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.
- China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge. Co-edited with Gregory Blue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- (in Chinese) Zhongguo yu lishi zibenzhuyi: hanxue zhishi de xipuxue. Taipei: Chu liu tushu gongsi, 2004. Simplified character edition: Shanghai: Xinxing chubanshe, 2005.
- Documents on the Rape of Nanking. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
- (in Chinese) Expanded Chinese translation: Nanjing datusha yingwen shiliao ji. Taipei: Shangwu yinshuguan, 2007.[9]
- Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities. Co-edited with Andre Schmid. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
- (in Chinese) Minzu de goujian: Yazhou jingying ji qi minzu rentong, 2008.[9]
- Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952. Co-edited with Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
- The History of Imperial China (6 vols). Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2008-). Editor-in-chief from 2008 to date.[9]
Awards
In 2009,
Death by a Thousand Cuts was a finalist and received an honourable mention for the Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers 2008 PROSE Award, in the World History and Biography/Autobiography category.[33][34]
References
- ^ a b Staff (16 December 2007). "Biography - Brook, Timothy (James) (1951-): An article from: Contemporary Authors". Thomson Gale. Archived from the original on 3 June 2008. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
- ISBN 978-0-8020-8867-3. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
- ^ a b Conrad, Peter (29 June 2008). "A time when every picture told a story". The Observer. Archived from the original on 20 August 2014. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ Washington Post. Archivedfrom the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ a b c Staff (1 April 2009). "Vancouver writer Timothy Brook wins U.S. nonfiction prize". CBC News. Archived from the original on 2 April 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- ^ a b c Staff (October 2004). "Timothy James Brook (profile)". St. John's College, University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ Staff (14 May 2008). "New Oxford China Centre launched". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ^ Staff (2008). "Death by a Thousand Cuts". Harvard University Press. Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ^ a b c d e f Staff (c. 2015). "Timothy James Brook". University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on 2015-02-07. Retrieved 2015-03-31.
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- JSTOR 2949905. Volume or issue is simply shown as "No. 31".
- Public Broadcasting Service. Archivedfrom the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
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- JSTOR 4528819. Citation reads: "Second Series, Vol. 85, Fasc. 4/5 (1999)".
- ^ Yee, Danny (2005). "The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China". dannyreviews.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-03. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- from the original on 2012-09-25. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- ^ Barrett, David P. (Fall 2005). "Timothy Brook. Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China" (PDF). The Chinese Historical Review. 12 (2). The Chinese Historians in the United States, Inc.: 339–342. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-01-29. The PDF shows a listing of contents for volume 12, No.2, General Issue Number 21. See CHR web site Archived 2009-09-15 at the Wayback Machine.
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- ^ Mitter, Rana (2006). "Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China" (PDF). The International History Review. 28. Routledge: 426. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
- doi:10.1086/tcj.59.20066387. Archived from the original(PDF) on August 5, 2008. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
- from the original on 2008-10-13. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
- ^ Soulliere, Ellen (June 2006). "Timothy Brook, The Chinese State in Ming Society" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. 8 (1). New Zealand Asian Studies Society: 168–171. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2010-05-26. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ^ Staff (8 May 2008). "Death by a Thousand Cuts". The Times Higher Education. Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ^ Staff (5 May 2008). "Death by a Thousand Cuts". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 10 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
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- (PDF) from the original on 2017-08-14. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
- ^ Maire, Stephen (11 February 2012). "The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties by Timothy Brook". Asian Review of Books. Cheshta Infotech Pvt Ltd. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
- ^ Hoffmann, Jackie (29 May 2009). "UBC Professor Wins Prestigious History Prize". Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
- ^ Staff (2008). "Death by a Thousand Cuts: Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon and Gregory Blue". Harvard University Press. Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ^ Staff (5 February 2009). "Association of American Publishers Announces 2008 PROSE Award Winners". Association of American Publishers. Archived from the original (DOC) on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
External links
- Staff (11 December 2005). "FRONTLINE: The Tank Man: Interviews: Timothy Brook (edited transcript)". Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- Nappi, Carla (24 February 2012). "Timothy Brook: The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties". New Books in East Asian Studies. New Books Network. Archived from the original (audio) on 23 May 2013. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
- Library of Economics and Liberty.