Robert Hymes
Biographic Data
| ID | 582081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Hymes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Hymes |
| SIGNATURE | HYMES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered
A Tale of Two Sieges
A Tale of Two Sieges:Liu Qi, Li Gao, and Epidemics in the Jin-Yuan Transition Robert Hymes The Question: Liu Qi's Silence A million deaths are a lot to leave out. My title might as easily be "A Siege in Two Tales," as my problem is the drastically different stories two men told of what happened in Kaifeng 開封 under Mongol siege. In 1235, on the first day of fall, the scholar Liu Qi 劉 (1203–1250), once a student at the Imperial University of the Ji…
Conrad Schirokauer
Conrad SchirokauerApril 29, 1929–September 19, 2018 Robert Hymes Around 1990 I had the privilege to experience perhaps the most intense period of prolonged collaborative collegiality I have known. This was the year and some months that Conrad Schirokauer and I spent meeting at least weekly at the Hungarian Pastry Shop, on Amsterdam Avenue near the Columbia campus, to work together on what became our edited volume Ordering the World: Approaches to…
Sung society and social change
Way and Byway
Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, Robert Hymes addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers as China's own bureaucracy governed their worldly lives? Or were they personal beings, patrons or parents or guardians, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice? To answer these ques…
Jaret Weisfogel
Obituary| November 01 2005 Jaret Weisfogel Sarah Schneewind; Sarah Schneewind Southern Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert Hymes Robert Hymes Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 1082. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911805002883 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Rev…
Jaret Weisfogel 1966–2005
Dr. Jaret Weisfogel died on the morning of April 25, 2005, from complications of the treatment he was receiving for lymphoma, a disease he had been battling valiantly for four years. As a graduate of Columbia College, he entered the Ph.D. program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, and completed his doctorate in 2002. He studied with Wm. Theodore de Bary, Robert Hymes, Irene Bloom, and Pei-yi Wu, among o…
Way and Byway
Way and BywayTaoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China
Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, this book addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers as China's own bureaucracy governed their worldly lives? Or were they personal beings, patrons or parents or guardians, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice? To answer these questio…
The Inner Quarters
Ordering the World
The Sung Dynasty (960–1278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase, the emergence of an educated elite, political and intellectual ferment, and threats from hostile neighbors are some of the forces that shaped the age. How did Sung statesmen and thinkers view the relation of state and society and the role of political action in solving society’s ills? The essays in …
Statesmen and Gentlemen
Sixteen. Lu Chiu-yüan, Academies, and the Problem of the Local Community
S. Robert Ramsey, The languages of China. Princeton
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Statesmen and Gentlemen
The Dynamics of Elite Domination in Sung China
Statesmen and Gentlemen
Not Quite Gentlemen? Doctors in Sung and Yuan
A Tale of Two Sieges
A Tale of Two Sieges:Liu Qi, Li Gao, and Epidemics in the Jin-Yuan Transition Robert Hymes The Question: Liu Qi's Silence A million deaths are a lot to leave out. My title might as easily be "A Siege in Two Tales," as my problem is the drastically different stories two men told of what happened in Kaifeng 開封 under Mongol siege. In 1235, on the first day of fall, the scholar Liu Qi 劉 (1203–1250), once a student at the Imperial University of the Ji…
The Dynamics of Elite Domination in Sung China
Statesmen and Gentlemen
Not Quite Gentlemen? Doctors in Sung and Yuan
Statesmen and Gentlemen
The Dynamics of Elite Domination in Sung China
Sixteen. Lu Chiu-yüan, Academies, and the Problem of the Local Community
S. Robert Ramsey, The languages of China. Princeton
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Statesmen and Gentlemen
Ordering the World
The Sung Dynasty (960–1278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase, the emergence of an educated elite, political and intellectual ferment, and threats from hostile neighbors are some of the forces that shaped the age. How did Sung statesmen and thinkers view the relation of state and society and the role of political action in solving society’s ills? The essays in …
The Inner Quarters
Way and BywayTaoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China
Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, this book addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers as China's own bureaucracy governed their worldly lives? Or were they personal beings, patrons or parents or guardians, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice? To answer these questio…
Way and Byway
Jaret Weisfogel 1966–2005
Dr. Jaret Weisfogel died on the morning of April 25, 2005, from complications of the treatment he was receiving for lymphoma, a disease he had been battling valiantly for four years. As a graduate of Columbia College, he entered the Ph.D. program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, and completed his doctorate in 2002. He studied with Wm. Theodore de Bary, Robert Hymes, Irene Bloom, and Pei-yi Wu, among o…
Jaret Weisfogel
Obituary| November 01 2005 Jaret Weisfogel Sarah Schneewind; Sarah Schneewind Southern Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert Hymes Robert Hymes Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 1082. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911805002883 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Rev…
Way and Byway
Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, Robert Hymes addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers as China's own bureaucracy governed their worldly lives? Or were they personal beings, patrons or parents or guardians, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice? To answer these ques…
Sung society and social change
Conrad Schirokauer
Conrad SchirokauerApril 29, 1929–September 19, 2018 Robert Hymes Around 1990 I had the privilege to experience perhaps the most intense period of prolonged collaborative collegiality I have known. This was the year and some months that Conrad Schirokauer and I spent meeting at least weekly at the Hungarian Pastry Shop, on Amsterdam Avenue near the Columbia campus, to work together on what became our edited volume Ordering the World: Approaches to…
Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered
A Tale of Two Sieges
A Tale of Two Sieges:Liu Qi, Li Gao, and Epidemics in the Jin-Yuan Transition Robert Hymes The Question: Liu Qi's Silence A million deaths are a lot to leave out. My title might as easily be "A Siege in Two Tales," as my problem is the drastically different stories two men told of what happened in Kaifeng 開封 under Mongol siege. In 1235, on the first day of fall, the scholar Liu Qi 劉 (1203–1250), once a student at the Imperial University of the Ji…
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