Arthur F. Wright
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| birth_place = Portland, Oregon, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|8|11|1913|12|3}}
| death_place = New London, Connecticut, U.S.
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| citizenship = American
| nationality = American
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| fields = Chinese history, sinology
| workplaces = Yale University
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| doctoral_students = Jonathan Spence, Thomas Hong-Chi Lee
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Arthur Frederick Wright (December 3, 1913 – August 11, 1976) was an American historian and sinologist. He was a professor of history at Yale University.Library of Congress (LOC), [http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n88-58212.html Wright, Arthur F.] He specialized in Chinese social and intellectual history of the pre-modern period.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/08/14/75546507.pdf "Prof. Arthur Wright of Yale, 62, Scholar of Chinese History, Dies,"] New York Times (US). August 14, 1976; retrieved 2011-03-14
Early life
Wright's undergraduate degrees at Stanford University and Oxford University were followed by further studies at Harvard. He earned a master's degree in 1940; and he was awarded a doctorate in 1947.
Career
Wright and his wife, Mary C. Wright, joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1947; and both were made full professors in 1958. In 1959, Wright and his wife joined the faculty at Yale. In 1961, Wright became the Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale.
Wright believed that the scholar "should occasionally stand back and contemplate the whole continuum of time and of problems which give meaning to his specialized studies."Brown, Sidney D. "Review: Arthur F. Wright. (1957). Buddhism in Chinese History," The Historian: a Journal of History (US). Vol. 22, 1959, p. 106.
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Arthur Wright, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 70+ works in 200+ publications in 6 languages and 8,800+ library holdings.[http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230150412/http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm |date=December 30, 2010 }}: [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88-58212 Wright, Arthur F. 1913–1976]
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- Studies in Chinese Thought (1953)
- Buddhism in Chinese History (1957)
- {{cite book
|url=https://archive.org/details/confucianpersona0000unse/
|year=1962
|ISBN=1-896951-88-0
|title=Confucian Personalities
|editor=Arthur F. Wright, Denis Twitchett
|publisher=Stanford University Press}}
- Confucianism and Chinese civilization (1964)
- Perspectives on the Tʻang (1973)
- [https://archive.org/details/suidynasty00arth/ The Sui Dynasty] (1978) (about the Sui dynasty)
- The Confucian Persuasion (1980)
- Studies in Chinese Buddhism (1990)
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Category:20th-century American historians
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Internees at the Weixian Internment Camp
Category:Presidents of the Association for Asian Studies
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:Writers from Portland, Oregon
Category:Yale University faculty
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