Philip A. Kuhn
Philip Alden Kuhn | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 9, 1933 London, England |
| Died | February 11, 2016 (aged 82) |
| Other names | simplified Chinese: 孔飞力 or 孔复礼; traditional Chinese: 孔飛力 or 孔復禮; pinyin: Kǒng Fēilì |
| Citizenship | American |
| Children | Anthony Kuhn |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, PhD) Georgetown University (MA) |
| Doctoral advisor | John King Fairbank, Benjamin I. Schwartz |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History; Sinology |
| Sub-discipline | Qing dynasty history Overseas Chinese history |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Timothy Brook, Timothy Cheek, Prasenjit Duara, William C. Kirby, Daniel Overmyer, Hans van de Ven, Arthur Waldron |
Philip A. Kuhn (September 9, 1933 – February 11, 2016) was an American historian of China and the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
Kuhn was praised by his colleagues. Frederic Wakeman described Kuhn as "one of the West's premier China historians." Stanford University historian Harold L. Kahn added that “Every twenty years, like clockwork, Philip Kuhn produces a book that we are required to read. What he says sticks to the ribs and gives much pleasure,” and Yale University historian Peter Perdue wrote that Kuhn "shaped the field of Qing history more profoundly than any other scholar of his generation."