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Harold L. Kahn ( -11 December 2018)

Kahn was born 1930 in Poughkeepsie, New York. He earned a B.A. from Williams College and an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard Uiversity. In addition to teaching, Kahn spent two years in Stockholm, drove a taxi in New York City, and among admired authors artists he lists the Beatles, the Stones, Nureyev, and Fontaine.

Upon his retirement, a group of his graduate students produced a festschrift in honor of Kahn and his colleague, Lyman Van Slyke, Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain.

Career
He received his PhD from Harvard in ???, and before going to Stanford taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He Kahn retired from teaching at Stanford in August, 1998, after a career there that lasted thirty years. At the time of his retirement he was also Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, a position he held for many years.

Works and reception
Among the students mentored by Kahn and Van Slyke who have published notable books were Carol Benedict, Kathryn Bernhardt, Mary Brown Bullock, Ming K. Chan, Ch'en Yung-fa, Bryna Goodman, Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, Dorothy Ko, Kwan Man Bun, Jonathan// Lippman, James A. Millward, Vera Schwarcz, Randall Stross, and Lung-kee Sun.

Articles and reviews

 * "Jonathan D. Spence: Ts' ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor, bondservant and master. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1966. $7.50, 56s." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 32, no. 1 (1969): 189-190.
 * "Joseph R. Levenson: Confucian China and its modern fate. Vol. two. The problem of monarchical decay.—Vol. three. The problem of historical significance. xiv, 178 pp.; xi, 180 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964–5. 25s. each." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 29, no. 1 (1966): 184-187.