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Willard J. Peterson is an American Sinologist who specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of late imperial China. He is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University. His Chinese name is 彼得森

He has published a number of monographs and articles in this area, and edited several volumes, including The Cambridge History of China, Volume 9, Part 1: the Ch'ing Empire: to 1800.

Education and career
Peterson first did graduate work at School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, where he received his Master's Degree in 1964, then at Harvard University, where he studied with Benjamin I. Schwartz, and received a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern languages in 1970.

His first book, Bitter Gourd: Fang I-Chih and the Impetus for Intellectual Change, an intellectual biography of the thinker Fang Yizhi, was published by Yale University Press in 1979. XX, writing in YY, called it ZZ.

Major works
Peterson, Willard J. Bitter Gourd: Fang I-Chih and the Impetus for Intellectual Change. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.