Frederick W. Mote
Frederick W. Mote | |
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| Born | June 2, 1922 Chinese history |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Franz H. Michael |
| Doctoral students | Gilbert Rozman Peter Lighte |
| Chinese name | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Móu Fùlǐ |
Frederick Wade "Fritz" Mote (June 2, 1922 – February 10, 2005) was an American
John K. Fairbank he helped create The Cambridge History of China
, a monumental (though still incomplete) history of China.
Life and career
Mote was born in
China-Burma-India theater of operations until 1946.[1]
After the war he enrolled in the
Gest Library could obtain a valuable collection of Chinese documents. He was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
in two different years.
In 1980, Twitchett came to teach at Princeton and the two men worked closely together for the next eight years, co-editing volumes 7 and 8 of Imperial China 900-1800 (1999) which sums up (and in a few cases updates) Volumes 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of The Cambridge History of China series.
Mote married Ch’en Hsiao-Lan in China in 1950. She survived him after a marriage of 55 years and donated his collection of 6,000 books to the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library at Bowdoin College in 2011.[2]
Selected works
- —— (1961). "The Growth of Chinese Despotism: A Critique of Wittfogel's Theory of Oriental Despotism as Applied to China". Oriens Extremus. 8 (1): 1–41. Review article on Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power.
- The Poet Kao Ch'i, 1335–1374 (1962). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- —— (1964). "The Case for the Integrity of Sinology". The Journal of Asian Studies. 23 (4): 531–534. S2CID 163521238.
- Intellectual Foundations of China (1971). New York: Knopf.
- (As translator): K. C. Hsiao, A History of Chinese Political Thought, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to the Sixth Century AD (1979). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7 - The Ming Dynasty, 1368 - 1644, Part I (edited by Mote and Twitchett) (1988)
- The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7 - The Ming Dynasty, 1368 - 1644, Part II (edited by Mote and Twitchett) (1988)
- Imperial China: 900–1800 (1999). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [1]
References
Citations
- ^ Atwell 2005.
- ^ "H-L Library gifted Chinese Book Collection". The Bowdoin Orient.
Sources
- "Frederick Mote, key figure in advancing the study of China, dies", Princeton Weekly Bulletin, May 21, 2005
- "Frederick W. Mote Scholar of Chinese Civilization". Washington Post. March 12, 2005. p. B06.
- Atwell, William S. "Frederick W. Mote 1922-2005", The East Asian Library Journal 12, no. 1 (2006): 1-12, accessed August 29, 2016, [2]
- Atwell, William (2005). "Frederick W. Mote". The Journal of Asian Studies. 64: 815–819. .
- Fong, Wen C. (2007). "Frederick Wade Mote, 2 June 1922 – 10 February 2005". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 151 (2): 255–260. JSTOR 4599064.
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