Christopher Harding

British Historian and Author

b. 1978

Dr. Christopher Harding is a cultural historian specializing in modern India and Japan. He is a senior lecturer of Asian history at the University of Edinburgh and has written multiple books on the subject.

Details

Family Name: Harding
Given Name: Christopher
Born: 1978
Gender: Male
Nationality: United Kingdom
Occupations: Historian,; Author

Works

Books

**The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East**
2024

**Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present**
2018

**The Japanese : A History in Twenty Lives**
2020

**Religious Transformation in South Asia: The Meanings of Conversion in Colonial Punjab**
2008

Author

2008

Religious Transformation in South Asia: The Meanings of Conversion in Colonial Punjab

2018

Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

2020

The Japanese : A History in Twenty Lives

2024

The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East

2025

A Short History of Japan