Xinru Liu (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xinru Liu is currently employed at The College of New Jersey as an assistant professor of early Indian history and world history, and has held since 1993 a full professorship at the Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Born in 1951 she had little formal schooling but instead worked as a peasant farmer and then as a factory worker during the cultural revolution. She taught herself English and history and gained admittance to the University of Pennsylvania where she earned a PhD in 1985 for work on Ancient Indian and Chinese History. Her PhD was published by Oxford University Press as Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1-600 (1988). She has written many books on Indian and Chinese history.