| LC control no. | n 88058212 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wright, Arthur F., 1913-1976 |
| Variant(s) | Wright, Arthur Frederick, 1913-1976 |
| See also | Employer: Stanford University Employer: Yale University |
| Birth date | 19131203 |
| Death date | 19760811 |
| Place of birth | Portland (Or.) |
| Place of death | New London (Conn.) |
| Field of activity | Academic writing Education China |
| Affiliation | Stanford University University of Oxford Harvard University Yale University |
| Profession or occupation | Editors College teachers Sinologists Academic Professor |
| Found in | His Buddhism in Chinese history, 1968, c1959: t.p. (Arthur F. Wright) p. 145 (prof. of history at Yale Univ.) LC data base, 8-2-88 (hdg.: Wright, Arthur F., 1913-1976) Buddhism in Chinese history, 1965, c1959: title page (Arthur F. Wright) Contemporary Authors Online, 2003 via Gale Biography in Context, March 26, 2014 (Arthur Frederick Wright; born December 3, 1913, in Portland, Oregon; died August 11, 1976 in New London, Connecticut. Family: married Mary Oliver Clabaugh (a professor of history), July 6, 1940 (died in June, 1970); married Marya Wankowicz Welch, March 4, 1972; children (first marriage) Charles Duncan, Jonathan Arthur. Education: Stanford University, A.B., 1935; Oxford University, B.Litt., 1937; Harvard University, A.M., 1940, Ph.D., 1947. Employment: Stanford University, assistant professor, 1947-51, associate professor, 1951-58, professor of history, 1958-59; Yale University, professor, 1959-61, Charles Seymour Professor of History, 1961-1976.) ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2008) with Index (1851-1993) via WWW, March 26, 2014 August 14, 1976 (Prof. Arthur Wright of Yale, 62, Scholar of Chinese History, Dies; Arthur F. Wright; specialized in Chinese social and intellectual history of the pre-modern era; chairman of the Yale Council on East Asian Studies and chairman of the Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization of the American Council of Learned Societies; during WWII, he and his first wife were arrested by Japanese authorities in Peking on Pearl Harbor Day and spent two and a half years in prison; in 1974, he returned to China as a member of an American archeological expedition) |
| Associated language | eng |
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