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Past Member

Stephen H West

Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Chinese History and Literature of the Tenth to Sixteenth Centuries
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Stephen West is researching the transitional period from the last days of the Jin dynasty to the reign of Kubilai Khan in the Yuan dynasty and investigating how conquest functioned as a catalyst for human re-engagement with the material, cultural, and social world through the act of writing.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

University of Michigan
Ph.D.
1972

Appointments

Arizona State University
2004–2020
Foundation Professor of Chinese
University of California, Berkeley
1986–2004
Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese Language and Culture
University of Arizona
1972–1986
Asst., Assoc. and Full Professor