Keith Taylor (historian)
Keith Taylor | |
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Born | 1946 (age 77–78) |
Alma mater | George Washington University (BA, PhD) University of Michigan (D.Phil) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Southeast Asian studies Vietnamese studies |
Institutions | Cornell University |
Keith Weller Taylor (born 1946[1]) is an American historian. He currently is Professor of Sino-Vietnamese Cultural Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. Contrary to the majority of Western historians with expertise in Vietnamese history, who predominantly discuss the events of the 20th century, particularly the US involvement, Taylor's scholarly exploration primarily delves into the pre-colonial history of Vietnam prior to the 20th century. He is now considered one of the pioneer experts in this field. He fought in Vietnam as a soldier in the United States Army, and subsequently has visited Vietnam for research and scholarly exchange many times and lived continuously in Vietnam for two years in the early 1990s while studying and teaching. He has researched all periods of the Vietnamese past and has developed a particular interest in Vietnamese poetry and how it has changed from generation to generation. In 2015 he received the Phan Châu Trinh Cultural Foundation Prize for Vietnamese Studies in Ho Chi Minh City.[2]
Publications
[edit]- The Birth of Vietnam: Sino-Vietnamese Relations to the Tenth Century and the Origins of Vietnamese Nationhood. University of Michigan Press. 1976.
- The Birth of Vietnam. University of California Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-52007-417-0.
- Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts. Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University. 1995. ISBN 978-0-87727-718-7. (co-author with John K. Whitmore).
- Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-87727-771-2. (edited by Taylor and Olga Dror)
- A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-24435-1.
- Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967–1975). Cornell University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-877-27765-1.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Footnotes
- ^ Trove – National Library of Australia: Taylor, Keith Weller (1946-) (Retrieved June 2020)
- ^ Ông KEITH WELLER TAYLOR: DIỄN TỪ NHẬN GIẢI VIỆT NAM HỌC (retrieved July 2018)
External links
[edit]- 1946 births
- 20th-century American historians
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American male writers
- American anti–Vietnam War activists
- American male non-fiction writers
- Cornell University faculty
- Living people
- United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War
- Vietnamologists
- Writers from Michigan