Herbert P. Bix

Herbert P. Bix (born 1938) is an American historian. He wrote Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, an account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2001.

Bix was born in 1938 in Boston and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1] He earned the PhD in history and Far Eastern languages from Harvard University. He was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars. For several decades, he has written about modern and contemporary Japanese history in the United States and Japan.

He has taught at many universities, including Hosei University in Japan as of 1986 and 1990,[2] and Hitotsubashi University as of 2001.[1] As of 2013 he is Professor Emeritus in History and Sociology at Binghamton University.[3]

His book 'Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590–1884' was hailed as 'a sensitive rendering of the actions of great masses of people' and a superior 'Marxist history'.[4]

Selected works
  • Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590–1884. New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986.
  • "Hiroshima in History and Memory: A Symposium, Japan's Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation." Diplomatic History 19, no. 2 (1995): pp. 197–225.
  • Remembering the Nanking Massacre
  • Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. HarperCollins, 2000.

References
  1. "The 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Nonfiction". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  2. Boscaro, Adriana; Gatti, Franco; Raveri, Massimo (1990). Rethinking Japan: Social sciences, ideology & thought. ISBN 9780904404791.
  3. Herbert P. Bix: Professor (Joint with Sociology)" Archived 2014-11-01 at the Wayback Machine. Department of History. Binghamton University. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  4. Goldstone, Jack A. (1987). "Review of Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590-1884". Theory and Society. 16 (5): 771–774. doi:10.1007/BF00133395. ISSN 0304-2421. JSTOR 657682. S2CID 189891365.


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