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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Yoshinobu Shiba
- Yoshinobu Shiba (????, Shiba Yoshinobu) (born 20 October 1930) is a retired Japanese historian of China and professor emeritus of Osaka University, who specializes in Song dynasty history.
- A member of the Japan Academy, he has received the Order of Culture, Order of the Sacred Treasure, and Person of Cultural Merit in Japan, and the Tang Prize in Taiwan.
- Several of his specialist works have been translated into English, including the landmark study Commerce and Society in Sung China (1968, abridged English translation published in 2 volumes in 1970), which remains one of the most respected works on Chinese economic history.
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