David M. Robinson (NHC Fellow, 2023–24)
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Ability and Difference in Early Modern China
John G. Medlin, Jr. Fellowship, 2023–24
Robert H.N. Ho Professor of Asian Studies and History, Colgate University
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David M. Robinson is the Robert H.N. Ho Professor in Asian studies and professor of history at Colgate University. His most recent monographs include In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: The Early Ming Court in Eurasia (2020), Ming China and its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia (2020), and Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire: Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order (2022). His current work explores ability and difference in early modern China.
Selected Publications
- Robinson, David M. Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire: Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Robinson, David M. “Delimiting the Realm under the Ming Dynasty.” In The Limits of Universal Rule: Eurasian Empires Compared, edited by Yuri Pines, Michal Biran, Jörg Rüpke, 284–315. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Robinson, David M. In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: The Early Ming Court in Eurasia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Robinson, David M. Ming China and Its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Robinson, David M. “The Ming Empire.” In Oxford World History of Empire, vol. 2, edited by Peter Bang, C. A. Bayly, and Walter Scheidel, 533–70. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.