Prasenjit Duara
Prasenjit Duara ( ), originally from Assam, India, a historian of China, is Oscar Tang Family Distinguished Professor, Department of History, Duke University, after being the Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore where he was also Director of Asian Research Institute and Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. Duara also taught at George Mason University and the Department of History in the University of Chicago, where he was chairman of the department from 2004–2007.Duara obtained his Ph.D. in 1983 from Harvard University, where he studied with Philip Kuhn. His doctoral thesis was "Power in Rural Society: North China Villages, 1900–1940." His first book, ''Culture, Power and the State: Rural Society in North China, 1900–1942'' (Stanford Univ Press, 1988) won the John King Fairbank book prize of the American Historical Association 1989) and the Joseph Levenson prize for the Association for Asian Studies (1990).
In addition to Chinese history, he works more broadly on Asia in the twentieth century, and on historical thought and the historiography. While his early work was on rural society in early 20th century China, he subsequently turned to studies of nationalism, imperialism, and origins of modern historical consciousness. In an interview in ''The New York Times'' about his work on Asian religions and environmental sustainability, Ian Johnson called him "one of the most original thinkers on culture and religion in Asia." He has served as President of the Association for Asian Studies which has a global membership of about 7000 scholars (2019-2020). Provided by Wikipedia
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Culture, power, and the state : rural North China, 1900-1942 / by Duara, Prasenjit
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Sovereignty and authenticity : Manchukuo and the East Asian modern / by Duara, Prasenjit
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The crisis of global modernity : Asian traditions and a sustainable future / by Duara, Prasenjit
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Culture, power, and the state : rural North China, 1900-1942 / by Duara, Prasenjit
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Decolonization : perspectives from now and then /
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The bright Dark Ages : comparative and connective perspectives /
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Asia redux : conceptualising a region for our times /
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Beyond regimes : China and India compared /
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A companion to global historical thought /
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