Philip C. C. Huang

Philip C. C. Huang, born in Hong Kong in 1940, is a Chinese-American historian. He received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University and his doctorate from the University of Washington, and taught for many years in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, retiring in 2004. His research focuses on Chinese socioeconomic history and legal history from the Ming and Qing dynasties onward, combining empirical materials with theoretical construction. His major works include The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China, Civil Law, Society, and Culture in Qing China, and The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta. He has received the John K. Fairbank Prize and the Joseph Levenson Prize. His works span social science, history, social culture, and related fields, and have exerted wide influence in academia.