WANG ZHENPING is a retired Associate Professor from the National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore. He received his Master’s degree in History of Chinese Economy from the University of International Business & Economics, China in 1981, and obtained his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 1989. Besides NIE, he has also taught in Rutgers University and the University of Toronto. Assoc Prof Wang’s research interest is in the diplomatic history of pre-modern China, particularly the Tang dynasty (618-907). His major publications include《汉唐中日关系论》(1997), Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China-Japan Relations in the Han-Tang Period (2005), Tang China in Multi-polar Asia (2013) and《唐代宾礼研究》(2017).
Asian and Western Scholarship Traditions in the Eyes of a Historian
I was trained as a historian under the Chinese academic system in Beijing, after spending ten years away from school during the Cultural Revolution. In the 1980s, I had opportunities to study in the US…
