Paul A. Cohen (Chinese name: Chinese: 柯文; pinyin: Kē Wén, born June 2, 1934 Great Neck, New York) is Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History Emeritus at Wellesley College and Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
His works have been translated into several languages including Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
He received his MA in 1957 and PhD in 1961 from Harvard University, where he was a student of John King Fairbank and Benjamin I. Schwartz.
He is currently an Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.
[3] He was formerly married to Jane M. Cohen, now on the faculty at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin.