Robert P. Hymes is an American historian and sinologist whose work has focused on the socio-cultural history of early

modern China The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), during the reign of king Wu Ding. Ancient historical texts such as the ''Book of Documents'' (early chapter ...

. Hymes is the Horace Walpole Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures at

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Biography

Hymes received his B.A. from Columbia College, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

. His scholarship has focused on Chinese society during the

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and Yuan dynasties. Hymes won the

Joseph Levenson Book Prize Joseph Levenson Book Prize is awarded each year in memory of Joseph R. Levenson by the Association for Asian Studies to two English-language books, one whose main focus is on China before 1900 and the other for works on post-1900 China. According to ...

twice from the

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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).

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