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Valerie Hansen

Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Yale University

Valerie Hansen is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University in Connecticut. Her books include The Silk Road: A New History (2012), The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600 (2nd edition, 2015) and The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began (2020).

Written by Valerie Hansen