Canadian university professor, historian
Timothy Brook
Born Timothy James Brook (1951-01-06 ) January 6, 1951 (age 74) Toronto ,Ontario , Canada Occupation Sinologist, historian, writer Language English ,Chinese ,French ,Japanese Education Genre History Subject Sinology; cultural, economic, legal and social history; world trade and globalization Notable works Books by the author Website www
Timothy James Brook (Chinese name: 卜正民; born January 6, 1951) is a Canadianhistorian , sinologist, and writer specializing in the study ofChina (sinology ).[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] University of British Columbia .
His research interests include thesocial andcultural history of theMing Dynasty in China; law and punishment inImperial China ;collaboration during Japan'swartime occupation of China , 1937–45, theNanjing massacre , and Japanesewar crimes trials; global history; andhistoriography .
Early life and education [ edit ] Timothy Brook was born on January 6, 1951, inToronto ,Ontario inCanada , grew up in that city and currently lives in Vancouver.[ 1] [ 5]
After graduating from theUniversity of Toronto Schools , Brook received abachelor's degree in English literature at theUniversity of Toronto in 1973; amaster's degree in Regional Studies–East Asia atHarvard University in 1977, and in 1984 received aPh.D. in History andEast Asian Languages at Harvard University, where his dissertation advisor wasPhilip A. Kuhn .[ 6]
From 1984–86 Brook was a MacTaggart Fellow at theUniversity 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 atStanford University , and 1999–2004 he was Professor of History at the University of Toronto,[ 6] Shaw Professor of Chinese at theUniversity of Oxford .[ 7] University of British Columbia in 2004, and was Principal,St. John's College 2004–2009.[ 4] [ 6] Institute of Asian Research .[ 8] Association for Asian Studies 2015.
2023 Distinguished Contributions to China Studies Award, World Forum on China Studies[ 9] 2010 D.Litt., honoris causa,University of Warwick 2010Prix Auguste Pavie ,Académie des sciences d'outre-mer , Paris, forLe Chapeau de Vermee r 2009Mark Lynton Prize in History , Columbia University School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, forVermeer's Hat 2009Wallace K. Ferguson Prize , Canadian Historical Association, forDeath by a Thousand Cuts 2006John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2005François-Xavier Garneau Medal , Canadian Historical Association., forThe Confusions of Pleasure 2000Joseph Levenson Prize , Association for Asian Studies, forThe Confusions of Pleasure Editorial positions [ edit ] American Historical Review , 2012--;Handbook of Oriental Studies , Brill, Leiden;Studies in Comparative Early Modern History , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis;International Journal of Asian Studies , University of Tokyo;Journal of Ming Studies , Taipei;Ming Studies , Society for Ming Studies, New Mexico State University;Shilin 史林 (Historical studies), Shanghai. Since 2008, he has been Editor-in-chief ofThe History of Imperial China , a six-volume series published byHarvard University Press .[ 10]
Brook's scholarly publications in the fields ofAsian social ,economic andlegal history andinternational trade include:
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 Oxford University Press , Toronto: Lester Publishing, 1992; Stanford:Stanford University Press , 1998.[ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China Harvard University , 1993.[ 16] [ 17] [ 18] [ 19] (in Chinese) Wei quanli qidao: fojiao yu wan Ming Zhongguo shishen shehui de xingcheng . Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2005.[ 10] The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China University of California Press , 1998. Winner of theJoseph Levenson Book Prize of 2000.[ 20] (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 ŭi hondon: Chungguk Myŏngdaeŭi sangŏp kwa munhwa . Seoul: Yeesan, 2005.[ 10] Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China Harvard University Press , 2005.[ 21] [ 22] [ 23] [ 24] [ 25] The Chinese State in Ming Society Routledge Curzon, 2005.[ 26] [ 27] Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World 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 [ 28] [ 29] The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties Belknap Press , 2013.[ 30] [ 31] [ 32] 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.Great State: China and the World ISBN 978-1-78125-828-6 <https://profilebooks.com/great-state.html >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 withPhilip 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.[ 10] 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.[ 10] 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.[ 10] In 2009,Vermeer's Hat Mark Lynton History Prize fromColumbia University inNew York , worth $10,000 (U.S.). The prize is one of theLukas Prize Project awards.[ 5] [ 33] [ 5]
Death by a Thousand Cuts Association of American Publishers 2008 PROSE Award, in the World History and Biography/Autobiography category.[ 34] [ 35]
^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. Retrieved2010-01-26 . ^ Lumley, Elizabeth (May 2003).Canadian Who's Who 2003, Volume 38 University of Toronto Press . p. 172.ISBN 978-0-8020-8867-3 . Retrieved2010-01-27 . ^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. Retrieved2010-01-22 .^a b c Dirda, Michael (27 January 2008)."Painting the World: How a hunger for tea and tobacco created global trade" .Washington Post Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved2010-01-22 . ^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. Retrieved2010-01-24 . ^a b c Staff (October 2004)."Timothy James Brook (profile)" . St. John's College, University of British Columbia. Archived fromthe original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved2010-01-22 . ^ Staff (14 May 2008)."New Oxford China Centre launched" .University of Oxford . Archived fromthe original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved2010-01-28 . ^ Staff (2008)."Death by a Thousand Cuts" .Harvard University Press .Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved2010-01-23 . ^ Yuan, Shenggao."Foreigners awarded for Chinese studies" .China Daily . Retrieved2025-01-06 . ^a b c d e f Staff (c. 2015)."Timothy James Brook" . University of British Columbia. Archived fromthe original on 2015-02-07. Retrieved2015-03-31 . ^ Mulvenon, James (February 2000). "Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement by Timothy Brook".The Journal of Asian Studies .59 (1).Association for Asian Studies :145– 146.doi :10.2307/2658599 .JSTOR 2658599 .S2CID 159711035 . ^ Wortzel, Larry M. (January 1994). "Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement by Timothy Brook".Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 31 (31). Contemporary China Center,Australian National University :123– 126.doi :10.2307/2949905 .JSTOR 2949905 .^ Staff (11 December 2005)."FRONTLINE: The Tank Man: Interviews: Timothy Brook (edited transcript)" .Public Broadcasting Service .Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved2010-01-24 . ^ 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 theSchool of Oriental and African Studies :988– 989.doi :10.1017/S0305741000032446 .JSTOR 655602 .S2CID 155061305 . ^ Saich, Tony; Brook, Timothy (Winter 1993–1994). "Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement by Timothy Brook".Pacific Affairs 66 (4). Pacific Affairs,University of British Columbia :573– 574.doi :10.2307/2760686 .JSTOR 2760686 . ^ 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 .140 .Cambridge University Press :1151– 1153.doi :10.1017/S0305741000053029 .S2CID 154856830 .Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved2010-01-26 . ^ Naquin, Susan; Brook, Timothy (December 1995). "Praying for Power: Buddhism and The Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China by Timothy Brook".Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 55 (2).Harvard-Yenching Institute :556– 568.doi :10.2307/2719353 .JSTOR 2719353 . ^ Struve, Lynn; Brook, Timothy (June 1995). "Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late- Ming China by Timothy Brook".The American Historical Review .100 (3).American Historical Association :930– 931.doi :10.2307/2168690 .JSTOR 2168690 . ^ 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 85 (4/5).BRILL :515– 520.doi :10.1163/1568532992642413 .JSTOR 4528819 . ^ Yee, Danny (2005)."The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China" . dannyreviews.com.Archived from the original on 2010-01-03. Retrieved2010-01-24 . ^ Pye, Lucian W. (June 2005)."Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China" Foreign Affairs .84 (3).Council on Foreign Relations : Foreign Affairs: 149.doi :10.2307/20034400 .JSTOR 20034400 .Archived from the original on 2012-09-25. Retrieved2010-01-24 .^ 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 fromthe original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved2010-01-29 . CHR web site Archived 2009-09-15 at theWayback Machine .^ Schoppa, R. Keith (December 2005). "Timothy Brook. Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China".The American Historical Review .110 (5).American Historical Association :1501– 1502.doi :10.1086/ahr.110.5.1501 . ^ Mitter, Rana (2006)."Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China" (PDF) .The International History Review .28 .Routledge : 426. Archived fromthe original (PDF) on 2009-10-14. Retrieved2010-01-29 . ^ Duara, Prasenjit (January 2008)."Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China" (PDF) .The China Journal Australian National University :142– 143.doi :10.1086/tcj.59.20066387 . Archived fromthe original (PDF) on August 5, 2008. Retrieved2010-01-29 . ^ Nakajima, Gakusho; Brook, Timothy (January 2006)."The Chinese State in Ming Society by Timothy Brook" .International Journal of Asian Studies .3 (1).Association for Asian Studies :143– 147.doi :10.1017/S1479591405280257 .S2CID 144121735 .Archived from the original on 2008-10-13. Retrieved2010-01-26 . ^ 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. Retrieved2010-01-28 . ^ Staff (8 May 2008)."Death by a Thousand Cuts" .The Times Higher EducationArchived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved2010-01-23 . ^ Staff (5 May 2008)."Death by a Thousand Cuts" .The New Yorker Archived from the original on 10 January 2010. Retrieved2010-01-23 . ^ Waltner, Ann (2010). "Timothy Brook: The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. By Timothy Brook".The Journal of Asian Studies 69 (4, November 2010).Cambridge University Press :1179– 1181.doi :10.1017/S0021911810002159 .S2CID 163821333 . ^ Bol, Peter (2011)."The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (review)" (PDF) .Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 41 .Project MUSE :405– 410.doi :10.1353/sys.2011.0014 .S2CID 162226951 .Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-08-14. Retrieved2012-10-24 . ^ 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. Retrieved2012-10-24 . ^ Hoffmann, Jackie (29 May 2009)."UBC Professor Wins Prestigious History Prize" . Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. Archived fromthe original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved2010-01-29 . ^ 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. Retrieved2010-01-28 . ^ Staff (5 February 2009)."Association of American Publishers Announces 2008 PROSE Award Winners" .Association of American Publishers . Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved2010-01-28 .
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