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STS
Program in Science,
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Peter Perdue
Professor Perdue received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard
University (History, 1970; East Asian Studies, 1973; and History
and East Asian Languages, 1981). He is the author of Exhausting the
Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D. (1987), and
several articles, including "The Qing State and the Gansu Grain
Market, 1739-1864," "Technological Determinism in Agriculture," and
"Military Mobilization in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century China,
Russia, and Mongolia."
His research interests lie in modern Chinese and Japanese social
and economic history. He is a recipient of the 1988 Edgerton Award
and a past holder of the Ford Interna- tional Career Development
Chair. He was awarded the James A. Levitan Prize and he is
currently writing a book on the Chinese conquest of Central Asia
from 1680 to 1760.
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