Luther Carrington Goodrich

L. Carrington Goodrich
Born (1894-09-21)September 21, 1894
Tongzhou District, Beijing, Qing Empire
Died August 10, 1986(1986-08-10) (aged 91)
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Institutions Columbia University
Education Williams College (B.A.)
Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D.)
Chinese name
Chinese 傅路德

Luther Carrington Goodrich (September 21, 1894 August 10, 1986) was an American sinologist and historian of China. A prolific author, he is perhaps best remembered for his work on the Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368–1644.

Life

Luther Carrington Goodrich was born on September 21, 1894, in Tongzhou, a southeastern suburb of Beijing, where his parents were serving as Protestant missionaries. As a young child, he lived through the Siege of the International Legations in Beijing; he was able to remember some of these events even in his old age, when he must have been one of the last survivors.[1] He attended the Chefoo School in Yantai (Shandong), the Oberlin Academy in Ohio, and Williams College, from which he graduated in 1917. In 1918, soon after the United States entered World War I, Goodrich joined the US Army and was sent to France, where he worked with the Chinese Labour Corps in France, workers who were brought to France during the war, and were now participating in the post-war rebuilding of the country.[1]

In 1920, Goodrich started graduate work at Columbia University, but soon left for China, where he worked for the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. Back at Columbia in 1925, he received his master's degree in 1927 and Ph.D. in 1934. Continued at Columbia as a faculty member, attaining the rank of full Professor in 1945.[1] Excluding a few short breaks spent as a visiting professor in institutions abroad (as far as India, Japan, and Australia), he spent the rest of his career at Columbia University; even after his retirement from teaching, he still remained associated with Columbia as Dean Lung Professor Emeritus of Chinese.[1]

During his academic career, Goodrich published a number of works on Chinese history. In 1956-57, he was President, Association for Asian Studies.[2]

Major Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Edwin G. Beal, Jr., L. Carrington Goodrich
  2. Thomas D. Goodrich, "Luther Carrington Goodrich (1894-1986) : a bibliography" Journal of the American Oriental Society 113.4 (1993): 585-592.
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