Misplaced Pages

Robert P. Hymes is an American historian and sinologist whose work has focused on the socio-cultural history of early modern China. Hymes is the Horace Walpole Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Biography

Hymes received his B.A. from Columbia College, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarship has focused on Chinese society during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Hymes won the Joseph Levenson Book Prize twice from the Association for Asian Studies 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).

References

1. "Robert P. Hymes | MA/MSc in International and World History". worldhistory.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
2. "ROBERT HYMES". tangcenter-columbia.org. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
3. "Hymes, Robert (E)". Department of History - Columbia University. 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
4. "Robert P.W. Hymes". ealac.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
5. "Levenson Prize". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 2022-05-13.

• Living people
• Columbia University faculty
• Historians of China
• American sinologists
• Columbia College (New York) alumni
• University of Pennsylvania alumni