Arthur Waldron
American historian (born 1948) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Waldron (born December 13, 1948) is an American historian. Since 1997, Waldron has been the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the department of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He works chiefly on Asia, China in particular, often with a focus on the origins and development of nationalism, and the study of war and violence in general.
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Born | Arthur Nelson Waldron (1948-12-13) 13 December 1948 (age 75) |
Alma mater | Harvard |
Known for | The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth |
Spouse | Xiaowei Yu (1988-present) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chinese history, comparative nationalism, integrative history, military history, international relations, Russian history |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Naval War College Brown Princeton |
Doctoral advisor | Philip A. Kuhn, Joseph F. Fletcher Jr. |
Other academic advisors | Yingshih Yü, Frederick Mote, Richard Pipes |
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