biography
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Wright, Arthur Frederick
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| male
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| lived:
| (1913–76)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Portland, Oregon, USA. A Harvard PhD, he taught at Stanford (1947–59) and Yale (1959–76) universities and was a leading Asia scholar of his generation. He focused on pre-modern Chinese social and intellectual history in works including Buddhism in Chinese History (1959, revised 1971) and The Sui Dynasty (1978). |
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