Richard Belsky

Richard Belsky has a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1982), an MA in Asian Studies from Cornell University (1987) and AM and PhD (1992, 1997) in History from Harvard University.  He has also studied at Beijing Normal University was a Senior Advanced Student in the Institute of Qing History at Renmin University of China.  Rick is the author of several scholarly articles in English and Chinese. His monograph, Localities at the Center: Native-place, Space and Power in Late Imperial Beijing (Harvard University Asia Center, 2006) examines the social and political significance of native-place ties and native-place institutions in Beijing from the 1500s to the 1950s. Rick's research interests include the social and political history of late imperial and modern China as well as world history, while his teaching interests include the History of China, the History of East Asia, and World History.

• Harvard University (PhD)

• Difang zai zhongyang - Wanqi Didu nei de tongxiang huiguan, kongjian he quanli, [translation of Localities at the Center: Native-Place, Space and Power in Imperial Beijing] translated by Quin Lanjun and Li Xinde (Beijing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, forthcoming 2019)
• "China, People's Republic of," Encyclopedia of Empire (John Wiley and Sons, Limited, 2016)
• Localities at the Center:·Native-place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing·(Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005).
• "Placing the Hundred Days: Native-place Ties and Urban Space" in Rebecca E. Karl and Peter Zarrow, eds.,·Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period : Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China·(Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002).
• "The 'Urban Ecology' of Late-Imperial Beijing Reconsidered: The Transformation of Social Space in China's Late Imperial Capital City,"·Journal of Urban History, Vol. 27 No. 1, (Nov. 2000).