Roy Bin Wong (; born 1949) is a Chinese

economic historian Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and ins ...

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

. He was the Director of the

UCLA Asia Institute The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

from 2004 to 2016. He received his BA from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, and received his MA and PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

Works

* ''China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience'' (Cornell University Press, 1997)

References

External links

Roy Bin Wong's Page at UCLA

R. Bin Wong Examines Asia's Place in World History
Columbia University 1949 births Living people University of Michigan alumni Harvard University alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Economic historians 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American economists Historians from California American male non-fiction writers {{US-economist-stub