- Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Department of History
David Wright
Research Interests
Areas of Specialization:
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
| F2022 - HTST 317 - East Asia From 1800 | ||||||||||
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| F2022 - HTST 547 - Chinese Strategic Thought | ||||||||||
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| W2023 - HTST 209 - The History of China | ||||||||||
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| W2023 - HTST 404 - The History of Taiwan | ||||||||||
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Taiwan History: A Selected Bibliography
Publications
Book
- Wright, David. From War to Diplomatic Parity in Eleventh-Century China: Sung's Foreign Relations with Kitan Liao Leiden: Brill, 2005. Print.
- Wright, David. The History of China Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2001. Print.
- Wright, David. 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. "What's in a Name? Would a Hsiung-nu by Any Other Name Still be a Hun?" 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. "Was Chinggis Khan Literate?" Writing in the Altaic World Ed. Janhunen, Juha Helsinki: The Finnish Oriental Society, 1999. 305-12. Print.
- Wright, David. "The Death of Chinggis Khan in Mongolian, Chinese, Persian, and European Sources" 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. 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. Review of Fahrenheit 9-11 Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2004. Print.
- Wright, David. Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2004. Print.
- Wright, David. Nicola Di Cosmo, ed. Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800) Chinese Military History Society Newsletter, 2003. Print.
- Wright, David. Beverly J. Bossler, Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, & the State in Sung China (960-1279) Journal of Asian History, 2002. 110-11. Print.
- Wright, David. Jin Qiu, The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution Canadian Journal of History, 2001. 626-28. Print.
- Wright, David. Margaret Megodaeff-Tomsik, Honour Due: The Story of Dr. Leonora Howard King Canadian Journal of History, 2001. 407-09. Print.
- Wright, David. Norman Cantor, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages Pacific Affairs, 2001. 249-50. Print.
- Wright, David. Svat Soucek, A History of Inner Asia The International History Review, 2001. 385-87. Print.
- Wright, David. 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. Pan Yihong, Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and Its Neighbors Journal of Asian Studies, 1999. 1117-18. Print.
- Wright, David. Juha Janhunen, Manchuria: An Ethnic History Journal of Asian Studies, 1999. 830-33. Print.
- Wright, David. 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. "Debates in the Field During Bayan’s Campaigns Against Southern Song China, 1274-1276". Debating War in Chinese History, (2013): 141-162. Print.
- Wright, David. "The Northern Frontier". A Military History of China, Updated Edition, (2012): 57-79. Print.
- Wright, David. "The American Romance of Revolution: American Women Observers of the Chinese Communists, 1920s-1940s". Women’s Studies Journal, (2012). Print.
- Wright, David. "A Chinese Princess Bride’s Life and Activism among the Eastern Türks, 580-593 CE". Journal of Asian History 45.1, (2012): 39-48. Print.
- Wright, David. "From Honoured Mound of Bones to Neglected Mound of Refuse: The Mass Burial Site of Anti-Mongol Loyalists in Yuqiao Village, Jiangsu Province, China". Chronica: Annual of the Institute of History, Szeged 5. (2005): 114-24. Print.
- Wright, David. "Nomadic Power, Sedentary Security, and the Crossbow". Acta Orientalia 28.1 (2005): 15-31. Print.
- Wright, David. "The Mongol General Bayan and the Massacre of Changzhou, 1275". Altaica 7. (2002): 108-21. Print.
- Wright, David. "The Screed of a Humbled Empire: The Xin Tangshu's Prolegomena on the Turks". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hung 55.4 (2002): 379-89. Print.
- Wright, David. "Mongolian Studies in Ch'ing China (1644-1912)". Mongolica: An International Annual of Mongol Studies 10.31 (2000): 489-94. Print.
- Wright, David. "The Sung-Kitan War of A.D. 1004-1005 and the Treaty of Shan-yüan". Journal of Asian History 32. (1998): 3-48. Print.
- Wright, David. "The Hsiung-nu/Hun Equation Revisited". Eurasian Studies Yearbook 69. (1997): 77-112. Print.
- Wright, David. "Wealth and War in Sino-nomadic Relations". The Tsinghua Journal of Chinese Studies 25.3 (1995): 295-308. Print.
Other
- Wright, David. 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. Translation: Chinese Fables, volumes 2 and 3. Taipei: Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, 1997. 1997.
- Wright, David. Translation: "Trends in Sung Historical Studies in Taiwan and Mainland China." Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies 25 (1995): 265-302. 1995.
- Wright, David. Translation: The Sui, T'ang, and the Five Dynasties: Stories from Chinese History. Taipei: Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, 1993. 1993.
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees
- PhD
Princeton University, 1993 - MA
Princeton University, 1990 - BA
Brigham Young University, 1987
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