Valerie Hansen
American historian of China at Yale; The Silk Road, The Year 1000.
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- Valerie Hansen is an American historian and the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, where she teaches Chinese and world history.
- She studies the Silk Road and the religious and legal history of premodern China.
- Her books include The Silk Road: A New History (2012) and The Year 1000 (2020).
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- Born
- 19581
- Education
- AB in East Asian studies, Harvard (1979); MA (1983) and PhD (1987), University of Pennsylvania1
- Career
- Yale history department from 1988; professor 1998; Stanley Woodward chair 20171
- Books
- Changing Gods in Medieval China (1990); Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China (1995); The Open Empire (2000); The Silk Road: A New History (2012); The Year 1000 (2020)1
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