is a Japanese historian. As of 2008 he is a professor of Chuo University's Faculty of Literature.

Biography

Tatsuhiko Seo was born in 1952 in

Hiroshima Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama ...

. He was raised in West Tokyo. He studied at Ritsumeikan University and measured

oriental studies Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology. In recent years, the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Middle Eastern studi ...

. According to his essay, he was interested in cities when he traveled from Bangkok to London as a backpacker. He graduated in 1977, and entered the graduate school of

Osaka University , abbreviated as , is a public research university located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's former Imperial Universities and a Designated National University listed as a "Top Type" university in the Top Global University Project. ...

. When he was a student, he also studied at Shaanxi Normal University and received guidance under Shi Nianhai(史念海). In 1979 he received a master's degree from

Graduate School of Letters. In 1983, he got a qualification for submitting a dissertation at the same university.Researchmap(SEO Tatsuhiko)
/ref> After graduation, he became an associate professor at the Hokkaido University of Education (1983-1989). From 1989 to 2000, he was a professor at University of Tsukuba (Department for History and Anthropology). After he retired from the University of Tsukuba, he was a professor at Chuo University. Now he is a researcher at the Tōyō Bunko, Tokyo.

Works

His lifework is a mechanism of two different worlds: agricultural world and Nomadic world. Seo was the author of many books, including ''"The Urban Social Structure of Chang'an, 583-904"(『長安の都市計画』)'', in 1983.

References

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