Timothy Brook (Historian) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Timothy James Brook (born January 6, 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada), who writes as Timothy Brook and who has had many academic works published, is a distinguished historian specializing in the study of China (Sinology). He is also known as Tim Brook. Brook holds the Shaw Chair of Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford and was appointed as principal and professor at the University of British Columbia's St. John's College. He is also Academic Director of the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at the University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research. Timothy Brook was born on January 6, 1951 in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, "grew up in" that city and currently lives there. Brook received a bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto in 1973; a master's degree in Regional Studies-East Asia at Harvard University in 1977, and received a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University in 1984.