Patricia Buckley Ebrey (born March 7, 1947) is an American historian specializing in cultural and gender issues during the Chinese

Song Dynasty The Song dynasty (; ; 960–1279) was an imperial dynasty of China that began in 960 and lasted until 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song following his usurpation of the throne of the Later Zhou. The Song conquered the res ...

. Ebrey obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

in 1968 and her Masters and PhD from

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in 1970 and 1975, respectively. Upon receiving her PhD, Ebrey was hired as visiting assistant professor at

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Un ...

. She became an associate professor in 1982 and a full professor three years later. Subsequently, in 1997, she accepted a Professor of History position at the University of Washington, from which she retired in July 2020. She's now Professor Emerita of History at that institution.

Honors

Ebrey has received a number of awards for her work, including fellowships from the

National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

, the

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowships to professionals who have demonstrated exceptional ...

, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. Ebrey's ''The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period'' received the 1995

Joseph Levenson Book Prize Joseph Levenson Book Prize is awarded each year in memory of Joseph R. Levenson by the Association for Asian Studies to two English-language books, one whose main focus is on China before 1900 and the other for works on post-1900 China. According t ...

from the

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. Her 2008 work, ''Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong'', received the

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's 2010 Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art History. She received the American Historical Association'
Award for Scholarly distinction
in 2013. In 2020 she received the Association for Asian Studies' highest honor, th
Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies
award.

Selected bibliography

*''Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China: A Case Study of the Po-ling Ts’ui Family'' (1978) *
Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940
' (1986) *''Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing About Rites'' (1991) *''Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society'' (1991) *''Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period'' (1993) *''Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook'' (1993) *'' The Cambridge Illustrated History of China'' (1996) *''A History of World Societies'' (1999) *''Women and the Family in Chinese History (2002) *''Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong'' (2008) *''The Cambridge Illustrated History of China'', second edition (2010) *''Emperor Huizong'' (2014)

References

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