G. William Skinner

G. William Skinner

G. William Skinner (1923-) is a leading American anthropologist and scholar of China. He currently holds the position of Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California and previously taught at Cornell and Stanford Universities. He is the leading proponent of the spatial approach to Chinese history and the delineation of the Physiographic macroregions of China. [G.W. Skinner (ed.) (1977) "The City in Late Imperial China." "Stanford University Press".]

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