Timothy
Brook
Timothy Brook is a historian of China whose writings reach out to embrace world history. A graduate of Harvard University, he has taught at Toronto, Stanford, and Oxford, and has held the Republic of China Chair at the University of British Columbia since 2004, when he graduated to professor emeritus status in 2022.
Timothy Brook
Timothy Brook is a historian of China whose writings reach out to embrace world history. A graduate of Harvard University, he has taught at Toronto, Stanford, and Oxford, and has held the Republic of China Chair at the University of British Columbia since 2004, when he graduated to professor emeritus status in 2022.
Brook has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Getty Fellow, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and a visiting professor at Villa I Tatti in Florence.
A historian of China since the 13th century, he writes on a broad range of political, social, and cultural topics, though with a focus on China’s engagements with the world. Brook has published thirteen books, which have been translated into many Asian and European languages.
In addition, he was editor-in-chief of Harvard University Press’s six-volume history of imperial China (2007-2010), which became a bestseller in China. Among his more popular books are Vermeer’s Hat (Bloomsbury, 2008), Mr. Selden’s Map of China (Penguin, 2013), and Great State: China and the World (HarperCollins, 2020).
