Robert Hymes | |
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Awards | Joseph Levenson Prize (1989, 2002) |
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Discipline | Chinese history |
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Robert P. Hymes [1] is an American historian and sinologist whose work has focused on the socio-cultural history of early modern China. [2] Hymes is the Horace Walpole Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies,East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. [3]
Hymes received his B.A. from Columbia College,his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarship has focused on Chinese society during the Song and Yuan dynasties. [4]
Hymes won the Joseph Levenson Book Prize twice from the Association for Asian Studies for his books Statesmen and Gentlemen:The Elite of Fu-chou,Chiang-hsi,in Northern and Southern Sung (Cambridge,1986) and Way and Byway:Taoism,Local Religion,and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China (California,2002). [5]
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