Herbert P. Bix
American historian (born 1938)
Herbert P. Bix (born 1938) is an American historian. He wrote Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan , an account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism , which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2001.
Bix was born in 1938 in Boston and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst . [1] He earned the PhD in history and Far Eastern languages from Harvard University . He was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars . For several decades, he has written about modern and contemporary Japanese history in the United States and Japan .
He has taught at many universities, including Hosei University in Japan as of 1986 and 1990, [2] and Hitotsubashi University as of 2001. [1] As of 2013 he is Professor Emeritus in History and Sociology at Binghamton University . [3]
His book 'Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590–1884' was hailed as 'a sensitive rendering of the actions of great masses of people' and a superior 'Marxist history'. [4]
Selected works
- Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590–1884 . New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986.
- "Hiroshima in History and Memory: A Symposium, Japan's Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation." Diplomatic History 19, no. 2 (1995): pp. 197–225.
- Remembering the Nanking Massacre
- Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan . HarperCollins, 2000.
References
- 1 2 "The 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Nonfiction" . The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
- ↑ Boscaro, Adriana; Gatti, Franco; Raveri, Massimo (1990). Rethinking Japan: Social sciences, ideology & thought . ISBN 9780904404791 .
- ↑ Herbert P. Bix: Professor (Joint with Sociology)" Archived 2014-11-01 at the Wayback Machine . Department of History. Binghamton University. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
- ↑ Goldstone, Jack A. (1987). "Review of Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590-1884" . Theory and Society . 16 (5): 771–774. doi : 10.1007/BF00133395 . ISSN 0304-2421 . JSTOR 657682 . S2CID 189891365 .
External links
- Bix: Hirohito decision led to later problems
- French, Howard W. (2000-09-12). "ARTS ABROAD; Out From the Shadows of the Imperial Mystique" . New York Times . - review of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- "A Conversation with Herbert Bix" . HarperCollins . Archived from the original on 2001-10-25.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Herbert P. Bix at Library of Congress , with 4 library catalog records
- Herbert Bix and his Hirohito: On the Use and Misuse of Sources Archived 2016-04-30 at the Wayback Machine George Akita, The Asiatic Society of Japan, 2003-11-03
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