Barat, Kahar 1950-
BARAT, Kahar 1950-
PERSONAL:
Born August 27, 1950, in Urumchi, China; naturalized U.S. citizen; son of Kurban (a bank employee) and Memet (a bank employee; maiden name, Henipe) Barat; married Memet Reshide (divorced); married Kasgarli Mahinur (a doctor), February 24, 2000; children: Sherman, Nursen Kasgarli, Daniel. Ethnicity: "Uygur." Education: Central University for Nationalities, B.A., 1976, M.A., 1980; Harvard University, Ph.D., 1983. Politics: "None." Religion: Islam.
ADDRESSES:
Home—295 Windsor St., No. 8, Cambridge, MA 02139. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, visiting fellow, 1996; Fokuang University, Chiayi, Taiwan, visiting associate professor, 1997-98; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, research affiliate, 1998-99; Comverse, Inc., Cambridge, MA, linguistic engineer, 2000-01; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, assistant cataloger, 2001, 2003—.
WRITINGS:
The Uygur-Turkic Biography of the Seventh-Century Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Xuanzang: Ninth and Tenth Chapters, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), 2000.
Contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Asian History.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Journal of Asian Studies, February, 2002, Max Deeg, review of The Uygur-Turkic Biography of the Seventh-Century Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Xuanzang: Ninth and Tenth Chapters, p. 240.