Michael Szonyi
File:01.09 哈佛大學費正清中心「兩岸事務訪問團」主任宋怡明（Michael Szonyi） (38884681814).jpg{{Infobox person
| name = Michael Szonyi
| other_names = 宋怡明
| nationality = Canadian
| education = University of Toronto (BA), University of Oxford (Phil.D)
| occupation = Sinologist, historian of China
| employer = Harvard University
| organization = Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
}}
Michael A. Szonyi ({{zh|t=宋怡明|p=Sòng Yímíng}}; born May 18, 1967) is Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University and former director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. His research focuses on the local history of southeast China, especially in the Ming dynasty, the history of Chinese popular religion, and Overseas Chinese history.{{Cite web |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/8/31/chinese-historian-tenured-after-a-worldwide/ |title=Chinese Historian Tenured | News | the Harvard Crimson |access-date=2010-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004043804/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/8/31/chinese-historian-tenured-after-a-worldwide/ |archive-date=2012-10-04 |url-status=live }}
Biography
Szonyi received a BA from the University of Toronto and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. After completing his doctorate, he worked at McGill University, later moving to University of Toronto, where he received tenure in 2002. Szonyi came to Harvard in 2005, and was named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in 2007 and Professor of Chinese History in 2009.{{Cite web |title=Michael Szonyi |url=https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/michael-szonyi |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=ealc.fas.harvard.edu |language=en}} Today he splits his time between Cambridge and London, Ontario, where his wife, Francine McKenzie, is a professor of international relations at the University of Western Ontario.{{Cite web |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/05/a-first-trip-a-career-opening/ |title=A first trip, a career opening | Harvard Gazette |date=13 May 2010 |access-date=2010-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031235833/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/05/a-first-trip-a-career-opening/ |archive-date=2010-10-31 |url-status=live }} Szonyi was appointed director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies in 2015.{{Cite web |title=Michael Szonyi appointed Director of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies |url=https://history.fas.harvard.edu/news/michael-szonyi-appointed-director-fairbank-center-chinese-studies |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=history.fas.harvard.edu |language=en}}
Books
- {{citation |editor1-last=Carrai |editor1-first=Maria Adele |editor2-last=Rudolph |editor2-first=Jennifer |editor3-last=Szonyi |editor3-first=Michael |title=The China Questions 2 : Critical Insights into US-China Relations |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=2022 |doi=10.4159/9780674287495 |isbn=978-0-674-28749-5 }}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Khanna |editor1-first=Tarun |editor2-last=Szonyi |editor2-first=Michael |title=Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2022 |doi=10.1093/oso/9780197602461.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-760246-1 }}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Szonyi |editor1-first=Michael |editor2-first=Shiyu |editor2-last=Zhao |title=The Chinese Empire in Local Society: Ming Military Institutions and Their Legacies |publisher=Routledge |date=2020 |doi=10.4324/9781003001737 |isbn=978-1-003-00173-7 }}
- {{citation |editor1-last=Rudolph |editor1-first=Jennifer |editor2-last=Szonyi |editor2-first=Michael |title=The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=2019 |doi=10.4159/9780674982703 |isbn=978-0-674-98270-3 |lccn=2017023762 }}
- {{cite book |author-last=Szonyi |author-first=Michael |title=The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China |publisher=Princeton University Press |date=2017 |doi=10.1515/9781400888887 |isbn=978-1-4008-8888-7 }}
- {{cite book |editor-last=Szonyi |editor-first=Michael |title=A Companion to Chinese History |publisher=Wiley Blackwell |date=2016 |doi=10.1002/9781118624593 |isbn=978-1-118-62460-9 }}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Zheng |editor1-first=Yangwen |editor2-last=Liu |editor2-first=Hong |editor3-last=Szonyi |editor3-first=Michael |title=The Cold War in Asia: The Battle for Hearts and Minds |publisher=Brill |date=2010 |isbn=978-90-04-17537-2}}
- {{cite book |author-last=Szonyi |author-first=Michael |title=Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2008 |isbn=9780521726405 }} (Chinese edition published by National Taiwan University Press, 2016)
- {{cite book |editor-last=Szonyi |editor-first=Michael |title=Ming-Qing Fujian Wudi xinyang ziliao huibian (Documents on the Cult of the Five Emperors in Fujian in Ming and Qing) |publisher=Hong Kong University of Science and Technology South China Research Centre |date=2006 }}
- {{cite book |author-last=Szonyi |author-first=Michael |title=Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China |publisher=Stanford University Press |date=2002 |doi=10.1515/9781503619623 |isbn=978-1-5036-1962-3 }}
- {{cite book |author-last=Zheng |author-first=Zhenman |translator-last=Szonyi |translator-first=Michael |title=Family and Lineage Organization and Social Change in Ming-Qing Fujian |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |date=2001 |doi=10.1515/9780824842017 |isbn=978-0-8248-4201-7 }}
References
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External links
- [https://scholar.harvard.edu/szonyi Homepage at Harvard]
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