The book received rave reviews from critics. In 2012, Hansen published The Silk Road: A New History, which argued that the Silk Road trade was small-scale and usually involved local goods. The book argues, contrary to the widespread view that no outsiders ever influenced traditional China, that Indian Buddhists and northern nomadic peoples shaped traditional China throughout its long history. A second edition of the book was published in 2015. Her second book, Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China, 600-1400, appeared in 1995. Hansen's first book was Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1279, which was published in 1990. At Yale, she teaches History of Traditional China, The History of World History, and seminars on Silk Road history. Valerie Hansen became the Stanley Woodward Professor of History in 2017. Hansen spent one year in Shanghai on a Fulbright grant from 2005–06 2008––12, teaching at Yale's joint undergraduate program with Peking University and fall semester 2015 teaching at Yale-NUS college in Singapore. Career Īfter graduating from Kent School in 1975, Harvard University in 1979 and receiving her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987, she joined Yale University in 1988 as assistant professor and became a professor in 1998.
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