Hightower, James Robert

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Hightower, James Robert
Date of birth
1915-05-07
Date of death
2006-01-08
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 11933653
Wikidata: Q1681043
Library of congress: no 99004066
Sources of Information
  • Harvard University gazette, June 14/July 18, 2007:p. 23 (James Robert Hightower; b. May 7, 1915, Sulphur, Okla.; d. Jan. 8, 2006)
  • OCLC, Jan. 20, 1999(hdg.: Hightower, James Robert)
  • Studies in Chinese poetry, 1998:t.p. (James R. Hightower) jacket (Professor Emeritus of Chinese literature at Harvard Univ.)
  • LCN

Wikipedia description:

James Robert Hightower (7 May 1915 – 8 January 2006) was an American sinologist. He was a professor of Chinese at Harvard University who specialized in the translation of Chinese literature. Although he spent his youth in Colorado, Hightower lived most of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts studying and teaching at Harvard.

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