Christopher I. Beckwith

Christopher I. Beckwith (* 1945) is Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. In 1968 he received his B. A. in Chinese at Ohio State University, his MA in 1974 in Tibetan at the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies Indiana University in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Inner Asian Studies also at Indiana University. His special interest is the early history of Central Asia and the ethno-linguistic prehistory Zentraleurasiens and East Asia.

In 1986 he became MacArthur Fellow.

Works

• Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, ISBN 9,780,691,155,319th
• Empires of the Silk Road: a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 9,780,691,135,892th
• Phoronyms: classifiers, class nouns, and the pseudo- partitive construction. Lang, New York, 2007, ISBN 9,781,433,101,397th
• Koguryo. The Language of Japan 's Continental Relatives. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2004.
• Medieval Tibeto- Burman languages ​​. Brill, Cologne 2002, ISBN 9,004,124,241th
• The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: a history of the struggle for great power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese falling on the Early Middle Ages. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987, ISBN 9,780,691,024,691th
• Silver on Lapis: Tibetan literary culture and history. Tibet Society, Bloomington 1987.