{{Infobox person | name = Noboru Niida | birth_date = {{birth date|1904|1|1}} | birth_place = Sendai, Miyagi, Japan | death_date = {{death date and age|1966|6|22|1904|1|1}} | death_place = Tokyo | resting_place = | other_names = 仁井田 陞 | occupation = Chinese history | years_active = | spouse = | children = }} {{nihongo|'''Noboru Niida'''|仁井田陞|Niida Noboru|January 1, 1904 - June 22, 1966}}<ref>Library of Congress Authority File, [http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n81-69100.html Niida Noburu Niida]</ref> was a Japanese academic, historian of Chinese legal history and Professor Emeritus of Oriental Laws at the University of Tokyo (''Todai'').<ref>Boyd, Kelly. (1999). {{Google books|0121vD9STIMC|''Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing,'' Vol. 2, pp. 875-876|page=875}}.</ref>

==Biography== In 1925, Niida began his studies at the University of Tokyo, where he would eventually be awarded his doctorate. Niida was a professor and legal history scholar at the University of Tokyo. Among the students he influenced was Denis Twitchett, who studied with him in Tokyo in 1953-54.<ref>Pompeian, Edward. [http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/23144.html "Denis Twitchett, historian of China, dies at age 80,"] ''History News'' (US). March 22, 2006; retrieved 2011-08-12</ref> He is known for having written {{nihongo|''Chinese legal System''|[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/040513728 中國法制史]|Chūgoku hōsei shi}} which has been the subject of a multi-year process of translation into English.<ref>Yale University, East Rock Institute, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110930061106/http://www.eastrockinstitute.org/ERI/EALC.pdf East Asian Law Projects directed by Hseung Chun Koh, 2008]}}; the translation of ''Chinese Legal History'' from Japanese into English was begun by Kwang Lim Koh at Yale Law School from 1963 to 1966; but he died before the project was complete. In 2007, Hesung Koh at Yale University and Haruka Kumamoto at the University of Tokyo resumed working on this project; retrieved 2011-08-13</ref>

==Selected works== In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Naboru Niida, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 200+ publications in 5 languages and 900+ library holdings.<ref>[http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities]: [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81-69100 仁井田陞 1904-1966 ]</ref> {{dynamic list}} *唐令拾遺 (1933) *中國の社會とギルド (1951) *中國の農村家族 (1952) *中國農村慣行調 (1952) *[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/040513728 中國法制史] (1952) *中国の法と社會と歷史: 遺稿集 (1966) *中国の伝統と革命: 仁井田陞集 (1974)

==Honors== *Imperial Academy, Imperial Prize, 1934<ref>Japan Academy, [http://www.japan-acad.go.jp/en/activities/jyusho/021to030.html#anker002 Imperial Prize, 24th May 11, 1934]; retrieved 2011-08-12</ref> for ''A Reconstruction of the Administrative and Civil Code of the Tang Dynasty''

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==References== *Boyd, Kelly. (1999). ''Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing.'' London: Fitzroy Dearborn. {{ISBN|9781884964336}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/468449026 OCLC 468449026] *Fukushima, Masao. [http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Periodicals/De/pdf/67_01_09.pdf "Profile of an Asian-minded man: Noburo Niida,"] in ''The Developing Economies,'' No 5-1, 1967. p.&nbsp;173-190. *Wright, Arthur F. and John Whitney Hall. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1037028 "Supplement: Chinese and Japanese Historiography: Some Trends, 1961-1966,"] ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,'' Vol. 371, (May, 1967), pp.&nbsp;178–193.

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