George Lawrence Israel, Ph.D. (2008), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Middle Georgia State College. He has published several articles on Chinese history.

'This is a most welcome addition to the bookshelf of Chinese history. (..) Israel has thoroughly combed the original sources and has engaged much of the recent scholarship on Wang in English, Chinese, and Japanese. He has also brought in current theory as it relates to various questions that emerge aboutWang’s activities. (...) Israel puts Wang Yangming’s career into a contemporary idiom, and effectively attunes it to the way in which history is usually approached these days.'JOHN W. DARDESS, (University of Kansas), Ming Studies, 73 (2016)

George Lawrence Israel, Ph.D. (2008), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Middle Georgia State College. He has published several articles on Chinese history.

'This is a most welcome addition to the bookshelf of Chinese history. (..) Israel has thoroughly combed the original sources and has engaged much of the recent scholarship on Wang in English, Chinese, and Japanese. He has also brought in current theory as it relates to various questions that emerge aboutWang’s activities. (...) Israel puts Wang Yangming’s career into a contemporary idiom, and effectively attunes it to the way in which history is usually approached these days.'JOHN W. DARDESS, (University of Kansas), Ming Studies, 73 (2016)

George Lawrence Israel, Ph.D. (2008), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Middle Georgia State College. He has published several articles on Chinese history.

'This is a most welcome addition to the bookshelf of Chinese history. (..) Israel has thoroughly combed the original sources and has engaged much of the recent scholarship on Wang in English, Chinese, and Japanese. He has also brought in current theory as it relates to various questions that emerge aboutWang’s activities. (...) Israel puts Wang Yangming’s career into a contemporary idiom, and effectively attunes it to the way in which history is usually approached these days.'JOHN W. DARDESS, (University of Kansas), Ming Studies, 73 (2016)