A. Tom Grunfeld
A. Tom Grunfeld (born 1946) is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at Empire State College of the State University of New York, specializing in the modern history of east Asia, particularly of China and Tibet.
Career
Grunfeld received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Old Westbury (1972), M.A. in Chinese history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (1973), and Ph.D. from New York University (1985).
He is often asked to comment on current Chinese and Tibetan affairs for the BBC and CNN International.[1]
He has been a member of the US–China Peoples Friendship Association and a staff member and contributor to its journal New China,[2] as well as a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars.
Awards
Grunfeld has received numerous awards funding travel and research from institutions including the National Endowment for the Humanities (1984), the Research Foundation of City University of New York (1985) and the State University of New York and the Ford Foundation (1993). He has also been a Fulbright Senior Scholar.
Publications
- The Making of Modern Tibet, 1987, 1996
- On Her Own: Journalistic Adventures from the San Francisco Earthquake to the Chinese Revolution, 1917-1927, 1993
- The Vietnam War: A History in Documents (with Marilyn Young and John Fitzgerald), 2001
Notes
External sources
- Empire State College: bio
- "Tibetan-Chinese Relations—an EAA Interview with A. Tom Grunfeld," Education About Asia 14.2 (Fall 2009)[1]
- Ingram, Paul O. Tibet, the facts (1990) Tibetan Young Buddhist Association
- Joes, Anthony James. Resisting rebellion: the history and politics of counterinsurgency (2006) University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-9170-X
- Powers, John. History as Propaganda: Tibetan Exiles versus the People's Republic of China (2004) Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517426-7
- Sherman, Grunfeld, Markowitz, Rosner, and Heywood. World Civilization: Sources, Images and Interpretations Volume II, 3rd ed. (2001) McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-241825-7
- A. Tom Grunfeld WorldCat Page.
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