劉欣如 (歷史學家)

劉欣如（1951年—）是一位美國華人歷史學家，印度學家。

劉欣如
出生	1951年 中國
國籍	美國
母校	賓夕法尼亞大學
職業	新澤西學院

生平

1951年出生，文化大革命中上山下鄉耽誤學業，1978年進入中國社會科學院世界史研究所擔任研究員，自學英語和歷史後赴美留學，1985年獲得賓夕法尼亞大學博士學位。其論文發表在牛津大學出版社名為《Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1-600》 (1988)。

1990年獲得伍德羅·威爾遜國際學者中心獎學金，同時也是美國亞洲研究協會，美國歷史學會, 世界史協會成員。

著作

• Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1-600 (1988)
• A Social History of Ancient India, Beijing: the Publisher of Chinese Social Sciences (1990)
• Studies on Monarchism and Despotism in the Ancient World (1993)
• Silk and Religion—An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People in A.D. 600-1200 (1996)
• The Silk Road, in the series of Essays on Global and Comparative History (1998)
• Connections Across Eurasia: Transportation, Communication, and Cultural Exchange on the Silk Roads (2007)
• The Silk Road in World History (2010)
• The Silk Roads: A Brief History with Documents (2012)

文章

• "Republics in Ancient India," World History, Beijing, 1996, no.3.
• "A Study of Primitive Democracy," Historiography Quarterly, Beijing, 1997 no.2.
• "Origin of the Caste System in South Asia," Historiography Quarterly, Beijing, 1998, no.2.
• "Social Mobility in the Caste System in South Asia," Historiography Quarterly, Beijing, 1999, no. 4.
• "Silk, Robes and Relations between Early Chinese Dynasties and Nomads beyond the Great Wall," in Robes and honor: the Medieval World of Investiture, ed. Steward Gordon, St. Martin's press.
• "Migration and Settlement of the Yuezhi-Kushan : Interaction and Interdependence of Nomadic and Sedentary Societies," the Journal of World History, Fall 2001.
• "Trade and Pilgrimage Routes from Afghanistan to Taxila, Mathura and the Ganges Plains," Hindistan Turk Tarihi Arastirmalari, The Journal of Indo-Turcica, no.1, 2001, 113-140.
• "A Silk Road Legacy: The Spread of Buddhism and Islam," Journal of World History, Vol. 22 No. 1, 2011.