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 Boston and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 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 in the years 1986 through 1990, and Hitotsubashi University in 2001. As of 2013 he is Professor Emeritus in History and Sociology at Binghamton University.
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'.
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
- Bix: Hirohito decision led to later problems
- French, Howard W. (2000-09-12). "ARTS ABROAD; Out From the Shadows of the Imperial Mystique". New York Times. - review of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- "A Conversation with Herbert Bix". HarperCollins. Archived from the original on 2001-10-25.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Herbert P. Bix at Library of Congress, with 4 library catalog records
- Herbert Bix and his Hirohito: On the Use and Misuse of Sources Archived 2016-04-30 at the Wayback Machine George Akita, The Asiatic Society of Japan, 2003-11-03
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