David B. Honey is a professor of Chinese at Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

. He also teaches summer courses at Middlebury College

Middlebury College

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 in Vermont. Honey has written on the Chinese influence on nomadic peoples of inner-Asia and also comparative works between exegeses in Western and Confucian tradition.

Honey has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. He received his bachelors degree from UCLA.