Peter C. Perdue

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Peter C. Perdue (born 1949) is an American author, professor, and historian. He holds the title of T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Perdue has a Ph.D. degree(1981) from Harvard University in the field of History and East Asian Languages. He is the author of Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D. (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1987) and China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005). He has also written on grain markets in China, agricultural development, and environmental history. His research interests lie in modern Chinese and Japanese social and economic history, history of frontiers, and world history. He is a recipient of the 1988 Edgerton Award, the James A. Levitan Prize, and a past holder of the Ford International Career Development Chair.