Herbert P. Bix

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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.

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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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References

  1. 1 2 3 "The 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Nonfiction". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  2. Boscaro, Adriana; Gatti, Franco; Raveri, Massimo (1990). Rethinking Japan: Social sciences, ideology & thought. ISBN   9780904404791.
  3. Herbert P. Bix: Professor (Joint with Sociology)" Archived 2014-11-01 at the Wayback Machine . Department of History. Binghamton University. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  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.