Peter C. Perdue is a professor of history at Yale University. Specializing in China, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nearly twenty-eight years before arriving at Yale in 2008. Though new to Yale, he was a familiar figure in the rooms of the Agrarian Studies Program, as he frequently drove down for the Friday colloquia since it began in 1991. In this interview, Perdue discusses meeting James C. Scott and attending the early colloquia; memorable events of the program and reflections on Scott; as well as the uniqueness and impact of the program and reasons for its success.
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Peter Perdue: Reflections on James C. Scott and the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University
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Peter Perdue, "Peter Perdue: Reflections on James C. Scott and the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University" conducted by Todd Holmes in 2018, Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2021. Interview date(s) 2018
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