刘欣如 (历史学家)

刘欣如（）是一位美国华人历史学家，印度学家。

生平
1951年出生，文化大革命中上山下乡耽误学业，1978年进入中国社会科学院世界史研究所担任研究员，自学英语和历史后赴美留学，1985年获得宾夕法尼亚大学博士学位。其论文发表在牛津大学出版社名为《Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1-600》 (1988)。

1990年获得伍德罗·威尔逊国际学者中心奖学金，同时也是美国亚洲研究协会，美国历史学会, 世界史协会成员。

著作
Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1-600 (1988)
A Social History of Ancient India, Beijing: the Publisher of Chinese Social Sciences (1990)
Studies on Monarchism and Despotism in the Ancient World (1993)
Silk and Religion—An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People in A.D. 600-1200 (1996)
The Silk Road, in the series of Essays on Global and Comparative History (1998)
Connections Across Eurasia: Transportation, Communication, and Cultural Exchange on the Silk Roads (2007)
The Silk Road in World History (2010)
The Silk Roads: A Brief History with Documents (2012)

文章
"Republics in Ancient India," World History, Beijing, 1996, no.3.
"A Study of Primitive Democracy," Historiography Quarterly, Beijing, 1997 no.2.
"Origin of the Caste System in South Asia," Historiography Quarterly, Beijing, 1998, no.2.
"Social Mobility in the Caste System in South Asia," Historiography Quarterly, Beijing, 1999, no. 4.
"Silk, Robes and Relations between Early Chinese Dynasties and Nomads beyond the Great Wall," in Robes and honor: the Medieval World of Investiture, ed. Steward Gordon, St. Martin's press.
"Migration and Settlement of the Yuezhi-Kushan : Interaction and Interdependence of Nomadic and Sedentary Societies," the Journal of World History, Fall 2001.
"Trade and Pilgrimage Routes from Afghanistan to Taxila, Mathura and the Ganges Plains," Hindistan Turk Tarihi Arastirmalari, The Journal of Indo-Turcica, no.1, 2001, 113-140.
"A Silk Road Legacy: The Spread of Buddhism and Islam," Journal of World History, Vol. 22 No. 1, 2011.

参考来源

中国社会科学院研究员
美国印度学家
华人历史学家
美國女性歷史學家
中華人民共和國歷史學家
新泽西学院教师
宾夕法尼亚大学校友
歸化美國公民的中華人民共和國人
移民美國的中華人民共和國人
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