Michael Szonyi Explained

Michael Szonyi
Other Names:	宋怡明
Nationality:	Canadian
Education:	University of Toronto (BA), University of Oxford (Phil.D)
Occupation:	Sinologist, historian of China
Employer:	Harvard University
Organization:	Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Michael A. Szonyi (; born May 18, 1967) is Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University and former director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. His research focuses on the local history of southeast China, especially in the Ming dynasty, the history of Chinese popular religion, and Overseas Chinese history.^[1]

Biography

Szonyi received a BA from the University of Toronto and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. After completing his doctorate, he worked at McGill University, later moving to University of Toronto, where he received tenure in 2002. Szonyi came to Harvard in 2005, and was named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in 2007 and Professor of Chinese History in 2009.^[2] Today he splits his time between Cambridge and London, Ontario, where his wife, Francine McKenzie, is a professor of international relations at the University of Western Ontario.^[3] Szonyi was appointed director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies in 2015.^[4]

Books

• • Book: Khanna . Tarun . Szonyi . Michael . Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present . Oxford University Press . 2022 . 10.1093/oso/9780197602461.001.0001 . 978-0-19-760246-1 .
• Book: Szonyi . Michael . Shiyu . Zhao . The Chinese Empire in Local Society: Ming Military Institutions and Their Legacies . Routledge . 2020 . 10.4324/9781003001737 . 978-1-003-00173-7 .
  • Book: Szonyi . Michael . The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China . Princeton University Press . 2017 . 10.1515/9781400888887 . 978-1-4008-8888-7 .
• Book: Szonyi . Michael . A Companion to Chinese History . Wiley Blackwell . 2016 . 10.1002/9781118624593 . 978-1-118-62460-9 .
• Book: Zheng . Yangwen . Liu . Hong . Szonyi . Michael . The Cold War in Asia: The Battle for Hearts and Minds . Brill . 2010 . 978-90-04-17537-2.
• Book: Szonyi . Michael . Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line . Cambridge University Press . 2008 . 9780521726405 . (Chinese edition published by National Taiwan University Press, 2016)
• Book: Szonyi . Michael . Ming-Qing Fujian Wudi xinyang ziliao huibian (Documents on the Cult of the Five Emperors in Fujian in Ming and Qing) . Hong Kong University of Science and Technology South China Research Centre . 2006 .
• Book: Szonyi . Michael . Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China . Stanford University Press . 2002 . 10.1515/9781503619623 . 978-1-5036-1962-3 .
• Book: Zheng . Zhenman . Szonyi . Michael . Family and Lineage Organization and Social Change in Ming-Qing Fujian . University of Hawai'i Press . 2001 . 10.1515/9780824842017 . 978-0-8248-4201-7 .

External links

• Homepage at Harvard

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chinese Historian Tenured | News | the Harvard Crimson . 2010-09-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121004043804/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/8/31/chinese-historian-tenured-after-a-worldwide/ . 2012-10-04 . live .
2. Web site: Michael Szonyi . 2023-09-15 . ealc.fas.harvard.edu . en.
3. Web site: A first trip, a career opening | Harvard Gazette . 13 May 2010 . 2010-09-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101031235833/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/05/a-first-trip-a-career-opening/ . 2010-10-31 . live .
4. Web site: Michael Szonyi appointed Director of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies . 2023-09-15 . history.fas.harvard.edu . en.