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Peter Perdue

Room
E51-291
Phone
617-253-3064
Email
pcperdue@mit.edu
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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.