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Timothy Brook (Historian) Information

Timothy James Brook (born January 6, 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Chinese Name: 卜正民),[1][2] who writes as Timothy Brook and who has had many academic works published, is a distinguished[3] historian specializing in the study of China (Sinology).[4] He is also known as Tim Brook.[5]

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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 there.[1][2][6]

Brook received a bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto in 1973; a master's degree in Regional Studies–East Asia at Harvard University in 1977, and received a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University in 1984.[7]

Academic positions held

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 a Professor at Stanford University, and from 1999 he has been a Professor at the University of Toronto.[7]

Brook held the Shaw Chair[8] of Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford[9] from 2007–2009 and was appointed as principal and professor at the University of British Columbia's St. John's College.[3][7][10][11] He is also Academic Director of the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at the University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research.[11]

His stated research interests include the social and cultural history of the Ming Dynasty in China; law and punishment in Imperial China; collaboration during Japan's wartime occupation of China, 1937–45 and war crimes trials in Asia.[12]

Editorial positions

Brook is on the editorial board of Ming Studies, the semi-annual journal of the Society for Ming Studies.[13] Since 2008, he has been Editor-in-chief of The History of Imperial China, a six-volume work published by Harvard University Press.[5]

Partial bibliography

Brook's many scholarly publications in the fields of Asian social, economic and legal history and international trade include the following works which he authored or edited, by himself or in collaboration with others.[3][7][10][12]

For a complete listing last updated in October 2004 (which additionally lists working papers, scholarly papers, encyclopedia articles, oral presentations and guest lectures),[14] see his academic profile at St. John's College, University of British Columbia (UBC),[7] and also his more recent profiles at the Department of History at UBC[5] and at the University of Oxford.[12]

Books written

  • (Chinese) Wei quanli qidao: fojiao yu wan Ming Zhongguo shishen shehui de xingcheng. Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2005.[5]
  • (Czech) Čtvero ročních dob dynastie Ming: Čína v období 1368-1644. Prague: Vyšehrad, 2003.
  • (Chinese) Zongle de kunhuo: Mingdai de shangye yu wenhua. Beijing: Sanlian, Taipei: Linking, 2004.
  • (Korean) K'waerak ǔi hondon: Chungguk Myǒngdaeǔi sangǒp kwa munhwa. Seoul: Yeesan, 2005.[5]
  • (French) Le chapeau de Vermeer : Le XVIIe siècle à l'aube de la mondialisation. France: Payot, 2010.

Books edited

Last updated October 2004.

  • (Chinese) Zhongguo yu lishi zibenzhuyi: hanxue zhishi de xipuxue. Taipei: Chu liu tushu gongsi, 2004. Simplified character edition: Shanghai: Xinxing chubanshe, 2005.[5]
  • (Chinese) Expanded Chinese translation: Nanjing datusha yingwen shiliao ji. Taibei: Shangwu yinshuguan, 2007.[5]
  • (Chinese) Minzu de goujian: Yazhou jingying ji qi minzu rentong, 2008.[5]

Book chapters

Last updated October 2004.

  • (Chinese) "Ming-Qing liangdai Hebei diqu tuiguang zhongdao he zhongdao jishu de qingkuang." In Zhongguo keji shi tansuo, pp. 633-56. Shanghai: Guji chubanshe, 1986.

Journal articles

Last updated October 2004.

Awards

In 2009, Vermeer's Hat won Brook the Mark Lynton History Prize from Columbia University in New York, worth $10,000 (U.S.). The prize is one of the Lukas Prize Project awards.[6][40] The book was described as a "bold, original and compulsively readable work of history."[6]

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.[41][42]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Staff (16 December 2007). "Biography - Brook, Timothy (James) (1951-): An article from: Contemporary Authors". Thomson Gale. http://www.amazon.com/Biography-Brook-Timothy-Contemporary-Authors/dp/B0007SGKWC. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
  2. ^ a b Lumley, Elizabeth (May 2003). Canadian Who's Who 2003, Volume 38. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. p. 172. ISBN 0802088678. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R2m2UmK2mS4C&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=%22Geographical+Sources+of+Ming-Qing+History%22+brook&source=bl&ots=4Wvd1fMft0&sig=clov4zGcG6gyD3fUR5M_oqm0DNo&hl=en&ei=uCdgS4OpNoyi0gT08ODiDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBMQ6AEwBTge#v=onepage&q=%22Geographical%20Sources%20of%20Ming-Qing%20History%22%20brook&f=false. Retrieved 2010-01-27. 28th edition (May 2003).
  3. ^ a b c Dirda, Michael (27 January 2008). "Painting the World: How a hunger for tea and tobacco created global trade.". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/24/AR2008012402715.html. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
  4. ^ Conrad, Peter (29 June 2008). "A time when every picture told a story". The Observer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/jun/29/review.features1. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i Staff (2008?). "The Department of History, University of British Columbia: Tim Brook". University of British Columbia. http://www.history.ubc.ca/tim-brook/. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  6. ^ a b c Staff (1 April 2009). "Vancouver writer Timothy Brook wins U.S. nonfiction prize". CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/04/01/timothy-brook.html. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  7. ^ a b c d e Staff (October 2004). "Timothy James Brook (profile)". St. John's College, University of British Columbia. http://www.iar.ubc.ca/introduction/brook.html. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
  8. ^ Chair: an academic professorial position.
  9. ^ Staff (14 May 2008). "New Oxford China Centre launched". University of Oxford. http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2008/080514.html. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  10. ^ a b Barrett, TH (1 August 2008). "Vermeer's Hat, by Timothy Brook: The fine art of global trade". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/vermeers-hat-by-timothy-brook-882263.html. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
  11. ^ a b Staff (2008). "Death by a Thousand Cuts". Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BRODEA.html. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  12. ^ a b c Staff (27 November 2009). "Timothy James Brook (profile)". Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/staff/ea/chinese/tbrook.html. Retrieved 2010-01-22. Page last edited 27th November 2009.
  13. ^ Staff (2010). "Ming Studies: The journal of the Society for Ming Studies". Maney Publishing: Research, Knowledge, Innovation. http://www.maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/mng/. Retrieved 2010-01-29. See Society for Ming Studies web site, hosted by Colby College.
  14. ^ Additional works by Brook are not listed here, but may be found on the article's discussion page.
  15. ^ Mulvenon, James (February 2000). "Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement by Timothy Brook". The Journal of Asian Studies (Association for Asian Studies) 59 (1): 145–146. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2658599. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
  16. ^ Wortzel, Larry M. (January 1994). "Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement by Timothy Brook". Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (Contemporary China Center, Australian National University) (31): 123–126. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2949905. Retrieved 2010-01-28. Volume or issue is simply shown as "No. 31".
  17. ^ Staff (11 December 2005). "FRONTLINE: The Tank Man: Interviews: Timothy Brook (edited transcript)". Public Broadcasting Service. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/interviews/brook.html. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  18. ^ Dreyer, June Teufel (December 1993). "Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement by Timothy Brook". The China Quarterly (Cambridge University Press on behalf of the School of Oriental and African Studies) (136): 988–989. http://www.jstor.org/stable/655602. Retrieved 2010-01-28. Special Issue: Greater China (December 1993).
  19. ^ Saich, Tony (Winter 1993-1994). "Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement by Timothy Brook". Pacific Affairs (Pacific Affairs, University of British Columbia) 66 (4): 573–574. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2760686. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  20. ^ Barrett, T. H. (December 1994). "Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China by Timothy Brook". International Journal of Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press) 140: 1151–1153. doi:10.1017/S0305741000053029. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=3562312. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
  21. ^ Naquin, Susan (December 1995). "Praying for Power: Buddhism and The Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China by Timothy Brook". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Harvard-Yenching Institute) 55 (2): 556–568. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2719353. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
  22. ^ Struve, Lynn (June 1995). "Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late- Ming China by Timothy Brook". The American Historical Review (American Historical Association) 100 (3): 930–931. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2168690. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  23. ^ ter Haar, Barend J. (1999). "Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China by Timothy Brook". T'oung Pao (BRILL) 85 (4/5): 515–520. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4528819. Retrieved 2010-01-27. Citation reads: "Second Series, Vol. 85, Fasc. 4/5 (1999)".
  24. ^ Yee, Danny (2005). "The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China". dannyreviews.com. http://dannyreviews.com/h/Confusions_Pleasure.html. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  25. ^ Pye, Lucian W. (June 2005). "Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China". Council on Foreign Relations: Foreign Affairs. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/60768/lucian-w-pye/collaboration-japanese-agents-and-local-elites-in-wartime-china. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  26. ^ Barrett, David P. (Fall 2005). "Timothy Brook. Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China" (PDF). The Chinese Historical Review (The Chinese Historians in the United States, Inc.) 12 (2): 339–342. http://www.chss.iup.edu/chr/CHR-t%20of%20c-vol%2012%20no%202.pdf. Retrieved 2010-01-29. The PDF shows a listing of contents for volume 12, No.2, General Issue Number 21. See CHR web site.
  27. ^ Schoppa, R. Keith (December 2005). "Timothy Brook. Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China". The American Historical Review (American Historical Association) 110 (5): 1501–1502. doi:10.1086/ahr.110.5.1501. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/ahr.110.5.1501?journalCode=ahr. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
  28. ^ Mitter, Rana (2006). "Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China" (PDF). The International History Review (Routledge) 28: 426. http://www.sfu.ca/ihr/pdf/Index_IHR_XXVIII_2006.pdf. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
  29. ^ Duara, Prasenjit (January 2008). "Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China" (PDF). The China Journal (Contemporary China Center, Australian National University) (59): 142–143. http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ccc/tcj59.pdf. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
  30. ^ Nakajima, Gakusho (January 2006). "The Chinese State in Ming Society by Timothy Brook". International Journal of Asian Studies (Association for Asian Studies) 3 (01): 143–147. doi:10.1017/S1479591405280257. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=ASI&volumeId=3&issueId=01. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
  31. ^ Soulliere, Ellen (June 2006). "Timothy Brook, The Chinese State in Ming Society" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (New Zealand Asian Studies Society) 8 (1): 168–171. http://www.nzasia.org.nz/downloads/NZJAS-June06/8.pdf. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  32. ^ Dirlik, Arif (August 1990). "The Asiatic Mode of Production in China by Timothy Brook". The Journal of Asian Studies (Association for Asian Studies) 49 (3): 625–627. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2057782. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  33. ^ Ocko, Jonathan K. (October 1991). "National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China by Min Tu-Ki; Philip A. Kuhn; Timothy Brook". The American Historical Review (American Historical Association) 96 (4): 1259. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2165161. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  34. ^ Chan, Steve (August 1998). "Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia by Timothy Brook; Hy V. Luong". International Journal of Asian Studies (Association for Asian Studies) 57 (03): 796–798. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2658745. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
  35. ^ Yang, Guobin (Spring 2002). "Civil Society in China: A Dynamic Field of Study". China Review International (University of Hawaii Press) 9 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1353/cri.2003.0057. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/china_review_international/summary/v009/9.1yang.html. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  36. ^ Lai, Chi-Kong (January 2003). "China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge by Timothy Brook; Gregory Blue". The China Journal (Contemporary China Center, Australian National University) (49): 222–224. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3182237. Retrieved 2010-01-27. Volume or issue is simply shown as "No. 49."
  37. ^ Minear, Richard H. (Winter, 2000-2001). "Documents on the Rape of Nanking by Timothy Brook". Pacific Affairs (University of British Columbia) 73 (4): 600–601. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2672465. Retrieved 2010-01-27. Special Issue: Korea in Flux (Winter, 2000-2001).
  38. ^ MacKerras, Colin (Autumn, 2002). "Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities by Timothy Brook; Andre Schmid". Pacific Affairs (University of British Columbia) 75 (3): 436–437. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4127295. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
  39. ^ Jennings, John M. (June 2004). "Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 (review)". Journal of World History (University of Hawaii Press) 15 (2): 269–271. doi:10.1353/jwh.2004.0022. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_world_history/v015/15.2jennings.html. Retrieved 2010-01-26. E-ISSN: 1527-8050 Print ISSN: 1045-6007.
  40. ^ Hoffmann, Jackie (29 May 2009). "UBC Professor Wins Prestigious History Prize". Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. http://www.arts.ubc.ca/nc/faculty-amp-staff/single-page-news/browse/4/article/97/ubc-professor-wins-prestigious-history-prize.html. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
  41. ^ Staff (2008). "Death by a Thousand Cuts: Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon and Gregory Blue". Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BRODEA.html. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  42. ^ Staff (5 February 2009). "Association of American Publishers Announces 2008 PROSE Award Winners" (DOC). Association of American Publishers. http://www.pspcentral.org/rtAwards/documents/2008PROSEWinnersPressRelease--Revised.doc. Retrieved 2010-01-28.

Further study

For additional resources, see the Wikipedia pages about Brook's individual books.

Articles by the author

Articles mentioning the author

Interviews

External links

Books by Timothy Brook (historian)
The Chinese State in Ming Society · Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China · The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China · Death by a Thousand Cuts · Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China · Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement · Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Persondata
Name Brook, Timothy James
Alternative names Brook, Timothy (pen name)
Short description Canadian university professor, historian (Sinologist)
Date of birth 6 January 1951
Place of birth Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of death
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