Faculty

Peter Lorge
Senior Lecturer in History

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1996

History of 10th and 11th century China; history of war and military thought; guns and gunpowder; Chinese martial arts; Chinese film

Telephone: 615-322-3707
Email: peter.lorge@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: Please email during the summer
Office: Benson Hall 218

Peter Lorge is a historian of 10th and 11th century Chinese, with particular interest in Chinese military, political and social history. Lorge has published The Asian Military Revolution:  From Gunpowder to the Bomb (Cambridge University Press 2008). He is the author of War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China (Routledge, 2005), which described the development of the Chinese empire in response to the demands of war and internal control.  He also edited Warfare in China to 1600 (Ashgate, 2005) in The International Library of Essays on Military History series.  His second monograph, on the history of guns and gunpowder in Asian history is currently scheduled to be released in early 2008 by Cambridge University Press.  A collected work under his editorship on the history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period has just been submitted.  In 2007, he established a new book series with Routledge, Asian States and Empires, which currently has half a dozen books contracted or under consideration.  He is currently writing a history of Chinese martial arts for Cambridge University Press, and editing a collected work called Debating War in Chinese History for Brill.

Peter Lorge is one of the founders, and former executive board members, of the Chinese Military History Society.  He won the Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2004, and has appeared on CNN to discuss Chinese military affairs.  In 2007, he attended The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies workshop on teaching National Security at Basin Harbor

 

 

 

 

 

 

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