Citizenship American Institutions Yale University Fields History of China | Notable students Jonathan Spence Name Arthur Wright | |
Born December 3, 1913
Portland, Oregon ( 1913-12-03 ) Died August 11, 1976, New London, Connecticut, United States Books Buddhism in Chinese history, The Sui dynasty, Studies in Chinese Buddhism Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
Doctoral students Jonathan Spence Education Harvard University (1947) | ||
Arthur Frederick Wright (December 3, 1913 – August 11, 1976) was an American academic, sinologist, editor and professor of history at Yale University. He specialized in Chinese social and intellectual history of the pre-modern period.
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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."
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.