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Harold L. Kahn ( -11 December 2018) [1]
Kahn was born 1930 in Poughkeepsie, New York. He earned a B.A. from Williams College and an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard Uiversity. In addition to teaching, Kahn spent two years in Stockholm, drove a taxi in New York City, and among admired authors artists he lists the Beatles, the Stones, Nureyev, and Fontaine.
Upon his retirement, a group of his graduate students produced a festschrift in honor of Kahn and his colleague, Lyman Van Slyke, Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain. [2]
He received his PhD from Harvard in ???, and before going to Stanford taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He Kahn retired from teaching at Stanford in August, 1998, after a career there that lasted thirty years. At the time of his retirement he was also Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, a position he held for many years. [2]
Among the students mentored by Kahn and Van Slyke who have published notable books were
Carol Benedict,
Kathryn Bernhardt,
Mary Brown Bullock, Ming K. Chan, Ch'en Yung-fa,
Bryna Goodman,
Gail Hershatter,
Emily Honig,
Dorothy Ko,
Kwan Man Bun,
Jonathan// Lippman,
James A. Millward,
Vera Schwarcz,
Randall Stross, and
Lung-kee Sun.
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