About
1941/1/15: Born in Lewes Sussex, England
1964/1966: BA/MA (History & Chinese), King’s College, Cambridge University, UK
1970: PhD (in Oriental Studies), Princeton University
1974: First Secretary (Economic), EU Embassy Japan
1994-2001: EU Ambassador to China
2001-2010: Visiting Professor: Peking University, Tsinghua University;
2001-present: Associate Fairbank Center, Harvard University
Fuller biography in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endymion_Wilkinson
Featured Work
Chinese History: A New Manual, 6th (50th anniversary) edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center distributed by Harvard University Press. 2 vols. ISBN 9780674260238
An encyclopedic introduction for graduate students and academics to Chinese history with a focus on the primary and secondary sources of all periods from prehistory to the death of Mao Zedong. Continuously in print for over 50 years, Wilkinson’s Manual has gone through 6 editions.
In addition, a Chinese-language edition was published in 3 volumes by Peking University Press in 2016.
The latest English edition (Harvard, 2022) totals 1,700,000 words (roughly equivalent to 15 academic monographs).
An e-book version was published as a cell app on the Pleco platform in 2017 and 2022.
