Marc Abramson is a historian of medieval Chinese and Inner Asian history and a retired US Department of State Foreign Service Officer. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 2001. He is currently working on two long-term translation projects: 1) Zeki Velidi Togan’s Umumi Türk Tarihine Giriş; 2) The Sui and Tang chapters of Sima Guang’s Zizhi tongjian.
His publications include Ethnic Identity in Tang China (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), reissued in paperback (ISEAS Press, 2013), and translated into Chinese as Tangdai Zhongguo de zuchun rentong (Renmin chubanshe, 2017); and, “Deep Eyes and High Noses: Physiognomy and the Depiction of Barbarians in Tang China,” in Nicola DiCosmo and Don Wyatt, eds., Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History (Routledge, 2003).
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Contact: marcsa2222@gmail.com