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]

Robert Hymes
AwardsJoseph Levenson Prize (1989, 2002)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineChinese history
Institutions

Biography

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "Robert P. Hymes | MA/MSc in International and World History". worldhistory.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  2. ^ "ROBERT HYMES". tangcenter-columbia.org. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  3. ^ "Hymes, Robert (E)". Department of History - Columbia University. 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  4. ^ "Robert P.W. Hymes". ealac.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  5. ^ "Levenson Prize". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 2022-05-13.