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Patricia Buckley Ebrey

b. 1947

American historian

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About Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Born 1947. Patricia Buckley Ebrey is an American art historian, historian, university teacher and sinologist.

Honors

Ebrey has received a number of awards for her work, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. Ebrey's The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period received the 1995 Joseph Levenson Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. Her 2008 work, Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong, received the Smithsonian Institution's 2010 Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art History. She received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly distinction in 2013. In 2020 she received the Association for Asian Studies' highest honor, the Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies award.

Selected bibliography Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China: A Case Study of the Po-ling Ts’ui Family (1978) Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940 (1986) Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing About Rites (1991) Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society (1991) Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period (1993) Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook (1993) The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (1996) A History of World Societies (1999) Women and the Family in Chinese History (2002) Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (2008) The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, second edition (2010) Emperor Huizong (2014)

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Birth century
Education
Columbia University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Washington
Employers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship; Joseph Levenson Book Prize; Shimada Prize
Also known as
Patricia Ebrey

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Patricia Buckley Ebrey?

American historian

When was Patricia Buckley Ebrey born?

Patricia Buckley Ebrey was born on 7 March 1947 in New Jersey.

What is Patricia Buckley Ebrey's occupation?

Patricia Buckley Ebrey is an art historian, historian, university teacher and sinologist.

What nationality is Patricia Buckley Ebrey?

Patricia Buckley Ebrey is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Patricia Buckley Ebrey

· Wikidata: Q4945630

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