Peter C. Perdue
Peter Perdue ( b. 1949 ) is an American historian and university professor.
After his education, Perdue studied history. He reached the B. A., M. A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University. Perdue has worked as a TT and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations and Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Perdue has written numerous articles and wrote in 1987 the book Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 AD and in 2005 the book China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. He is considered an expert of Chinese and Japanese history.
Writings
- Exhausting the Earth. State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 ( = Harvard East Asian Monographs Vol. 130). Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, among other things, 1987, ISBN 0-674-27504-7.
- China marches west. The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, inter alia, 2005, ISBN 0 - 674-01684 -X.