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David Wright
Associate Professor
+1 (403) 220-6408
Social Sciences 616
wrightd@ucalgary.ca
Research Interests
Areas of Specialization:
China
Military/Diplomatic History
Research Interests:
Chinese military history
Mongols, the Mongol conquest of China, and the Mongol world empire
North American journalists and missionaries in China, ca. 1858-1949
possible connections between Asian Xiongnu and the European Huns
Premodern Chinese foreign relations and frontier administration
Qing Taiwan
World history
Currently Teaching
Not currently teaching any courses.
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Taiwan History: A Selected Bibliography
Taiwan History: A Selected Bibliography
Publications
Book
Wright, David
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From War to Diplomatic Parity in Eleventh-Century China: Sung's Foreign Relations with Kitan Liao
Leiden: Brill, 2005. Print.
Wright, David
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The History of China
Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2001. Print.
Wright, David
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The Ambassadors Records: Eleventh-Century Reports of Sung Embassies to the Liao
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1998. Print.
Book Chapter
Wright, David
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What's in a Name? Would a Hsiung-nu by Any Other Name Still be a Hun?
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Altaic Affinities: Proceedings of the 40th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC)
Ed.
Honey, David B. and Wright, David C.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2001. 66-81. Print.
Wright, David
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Was Chinggis Khan Literate?
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Writing in the Altaic World
Ed.
Janhunen, Juha
Helsinki: The Finnish Oriental Society, 1999. 305-12. Print.
Wright, David
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The Death of Chinggis Khan in Mongolian, Chinese, Persian, and European Sources
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Historical and Linguistic Interaction between Inner Asia and Europe
Ed.
Berta, Árpád
Szeged, Hungary: University of Szeged, 1997. 425-33. Print.
Book Review
Wright, David
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Review of S. C. M. Paine, The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy
The International History Review, 2004. 640-42. Print.
Wright, David
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Review of Fahrenheit 9-11
Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2004. Print.
Wright, David
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Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2004. Print.
Wright, David
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Nicola Di Cosmo, ed. Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800)
Chinese Military History Society Newsletter, 2003. Print.
Wright, David
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Beverly J. Bossler, Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, & the State in Sung China (960-1279)
Journal of Asian History, 2002. 110-11. Print.
Wright, David
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Jin Qiu, The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution
Canadian Journal of History, 2001. 626-28. Print.
Wright, David
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Margaret Megodaeff-Tomsik, Honour Due: The Story of Dr. Leonora Howard King
Canadian Journal of History, 2001. 407-09. Print.
Wright, David
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Norman Cantor, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Pacific Affairs, 2001. 249-50. Print.
Wright, David
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Svat Soucek, A History of Inner Asia
The International History Review, 2001. 385-87. Print.
Wright, David
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Ann Paludan, Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: The Reign-by-reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China
Journal of Asian History, 2000. 82-84. Print.
Wright, David
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Pan Yihong, Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and Its Neighbors
Journal of Asian Studies, 1999. 1117-18. Print.
Wright, David
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Juha Janhunen, Manchuria: An Ethnic History
Journal of Asian Studies, 1999. 830-33. Print.
Wright, David
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Arthur Waldron, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth
The American Asian Review, 1995. 134-47. Print.
Edited Book
Honey, David B. and
Wright, David
(eds).
Altaic Affinities: Proceedings of the 40th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC)
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2001. Print.
Wright, David
(ed).
People of the Steppe: Historical Sources on the Pastoral Nomads of Eurasia
Needham Heights, Mass: Pearson Custom Publishing / Simon & Schuster [Custom] Publishing, 1998. Print.
Journal Article
Wright, David
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Debates in the Field During Bayan’s Campaigns Against Southern Song China, 1274-1276
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. Debating War in Chinese History
, (2013): 141-162. Print.
Wright, David
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The Northern Frontier
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. A Military History of China, Updated Edition
, (2012): 57-79. Print.
Wright, David
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The American Romance of Revolution: American Women Observers of the Chinese Communists, 1920s-1940s
"
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Women’s Studies Journal
, (2012). Print.
Wright, David
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A Chinese Princess Bride’s Life and Activism among the Eastern Türks, 580-593 CE
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. Journal of Asian History 45.1
, (2012): 39-48. Print.
Wright, David
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From Honoured Mound of Bones to Neglected Mound of Refuse: The Mass Burial Site of Anti-Mongol Loyalists in Yuqiao Village, Jiangsu Province, China
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. Chronica: Annual of the Institute of History, Szeged
5. (2005): 114-24. Print.
Wright, David
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Nomadic Power, Sedentary Security, and the Crossbow
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. Acta Orientalia
28.1 (2005): 15-31. Print.
Wright, David
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The Mongol General Bayan and the Massacre of Changzhou, 1275
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. Altaica
7. (2002): 108-21. Print.
Wright, David
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The Screed of a Humbled Empire: The Xin Tangshu's Prolegomena on the Turks
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. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hung
55.4 (2002): 379-89. Print.
Wright, David
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Mongolian Studies in Ch'ing China (1644-1912)
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. Mongolica: An International Annual of Mongol Studies
10.31 (2000): 489-94. Print.
Wright, David
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The Sung-Kitan War of A.D. 1004-1005 and the Treaty of Shan-yüan
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. Journal of Asian History
32. (1998): 3-48. Print.
Wright, David
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The Hsiung-nu/Hun Equation Revisited
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. Eurasian Studies Yearbook
69. (1997): 77-112. Print.
Wright, David
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Wealth and War in Sino-nomadic Relations
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. The Tsinghua Journal of Chinese Studies
25.3 (1995): 295-308. Print.
Other
Wright, David
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Translation: "Mountain Fortress Defence: The Experience of the Southern Song and Korea in Resisting the Mongol Invasions." In Hans van de Ven, ed., Warfare in Chinese History (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 222-51
2000.
Wright, David
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Translation: Chinese Fables, volumes 2 and 3. Taipei: Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, 1997.
1997.
Wright, David
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Translation: "Trends in Sung Historical Studies in Taiwan and Mainland China." Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies 25 (1995): 265-302.
1995.
Wright, David
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Translation: The Sui, T'ang, and the Five Dynasties: Stories from Chinese History. Taipei: Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, 1993.
1993.
Courses
Curriculum Vitae
david-wright-cv.pdf
Degrees
PhD
Princeton University, 1993
MA
Princeton University, 1990
BA
Brigham Young University, 1987
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