Annping Chin born in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 in 1950, is a Senior Lecturer of History

History

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 at Yale

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. Her fields of study include Confucianism, Taoism

Taoism

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, and the Chinese intellectual tradition. Before Yale, she was on the faculty at Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

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.

Biography

Chin studied mathematics

Mathematics

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 at Michigan State University

Michigan State University

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 and received her Ph.D. in Chinese Thought from Columbia University

Columbia University

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. She lives in West Haven, Connecticut

West Haven, Connecticut

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 with her husband, Jonathan Spence

Jonathan Spence

Jonathan D. Spence is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most famous book is The Search for Modern China, which has become one of the standard texts on the last several...

, and she has two children, writer Mei Chin

Mei Chin

Mei Chin is a fiction and food writer living in Dublin.Her short stories have appeared in Fiction and Bomb Magazine and are characterized by a combination of the fantastic and the mundane.She won the James Beard Foundation's M.F.K...

 and video game designer Yar Woo.

Publications

Chin has written four books: The Authentic Confucius

Confucius

Confucius , literally "Master Kong", was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period....

: A Life of Thought and Politics (Scribner

Charles Scribner's Sons

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, 2007); Four Sisters of Hofei (Scribner, 2002), a history of China's last century through the lives of four highly educated and accomplished women; Tai Chen on Mencius

Mencius

Mencius was a Chinese philosopher who was arguably the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself.-Life:Mencius, also known by his birth name Meng Ke or Ko, was born in the State of Zou, now forming the territory of the county-level city of Zoucheng , Shandong province, only thirty kilometres ...

(Yale University Press

Yale University Press

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, 1990), a study of eighteenth century Chinese intellectual history; and Children of China: Voices from Recent Years (Knopf, 1989), based on interviews with Chinese children living in the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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. She has also co-authored, with Jonathan Spence

Jonathan Spence

Jonathan D. Spence is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most famous book is The Search for Modern China, which has become one of the standard texts on the last several...

, Chinese Century: A Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years (Random House

Random House

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, 1996).

Books

• Children of China: Voices from Recent Years (1989)
• Tai Chen on Mencius (1990)
• Chinese Century: A Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years (1996)
• Four Sisters of Hofei (2002)
• The Authentic Confucius
  Confucius
  Confucius , literally "Master Kong", was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period....
  
  : A Life of Thought and Politics (2007)