Hyun Jin Kim (born 1982) is an

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n academic, scholar and author. He was born in

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and raised in

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. Kim got his

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degree from the

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. He started learning

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, and French when he was 10, and was urged to study

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in university by his father. He is a scholar of ancient Greece, Rome and China. Kim has published several works on Eurasian/ Central Asian peoples, such as the

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. In 2019, Kim was elected a Fellow of the

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. His work focuses chiefly on comparative analyses of ancient Greece/Rome and China. His first major work on such topic was ''Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China'', published in 2009.

Selected list of works

* Kim, Hyun Jin (2009). ''Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China.'' London: Duckworth Books. . * Kim, Hyun Jin (2013). ''The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . * Kim, Hyun Jin (2016). ''The Huns.'' Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis. . * Kim, Hyun Jin (2017). ''Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Contact and Exchange Between the Graeco-Roman World, Inner Asia and China.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . * Kim, Hyun Jin (2018). ''Geopolitics in Late Antiquity: The Fate of Superpowers from China to Rome.'' Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis. . * Kim, Hyun Jin; Lieu, Samuel N.C.; McLaughlin, Raoul (2021). ''Rome and China Points of Contact.'' Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis. . * Cha, Hyeonji; Kim, Hyun Jin (2022). ''South Korea's Origins and Early Relations with the United States: The Lynchpin of Hegemonic Power.'' Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis. .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Hyun Jin Living people 21st-century Australian historians Australian scholars Australian sinologists University of Melbourne 1982 births Australian people of Korean descent People from Seoul Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities