Robert Hymes, Carpentier Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University
Thursday, November 13, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
There will be a graduate students coffee hour with Prof. Hymes at 10:30AM in the Paul Padilla Reading Room (Bunche Hall 6265).
Public talk by Prof. Robert Hymes starts at 4pm in Bunche Hall 10383. Talk abstract will be updated here.
Robert Hymes’ work focuses on the social and cultural history of middle period and early modern China, drawing questions and sometimes data from cultural anthropology as well as history, and using the methods of the local historian to study elite culture, family and kinship, medicine, religion, gender, and (currently) the changing role and form of Chinese social networks from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries. His monographs Statesmen and Gentlemen and Way and Byway won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book on pre-1900 China in their years of publication.
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies