John Whitney Hall
John Whitney Hall(September 13, 1916 – October 21, 1997),[1]was anAmericanacademic, historian, editor and professor atYale University.[2]
Early years
[change|change source]Hall was born in Kyoto in 1916. He lived in Japan until he was a teenager. According to his wife, "Being brought up in Japan and by missionaries, he was a very straight-arrow kind of person. There is this kind of missionary feeling, that you must make something of this [life], not just throw it away."[2]
AtAmherst College,he was awarded a degree in 1939. He returned to Japan an instructor in English atDoshisha Universityin Kyoto until 1941.[2]
Hall earned his Ph.D. in East Asian languages and literatures fromHarvard Universityin 1950. At Harvard, he became one of the first graduate students to study underEdwin O. Reischauer.[2]
Career
[change|change source]In 1948, Hall began teaching at theUniversity of Michigan.[3]
His earliest book wasTanuma Okitsugu,1718-1787.[4]Among other interests, his research focused on theKamakura periodin thehistory of Japan.[5]
He taught atYale Universityuntil he retired in 1983.[2]Yale's John W. Hall Lecture Series in Japanese Studies was established in his memory.[6]
Selected works
[change|change source]In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about John Whitney Hall,OCLC/WorldCatencompasses roughly 90+ works in 200+ publications in 8 languages and 10,000+ library holdings[7]
- Japanese History; a Guide to Japanese Reference and Research Materials(1954)
- Tanuma Okitsugu,1719–1788, Forerunner of Modern Japan(1955)
- Government and Local Power in Japan, 500 to 1700; a Study Based on Bizen Province(1960)
- Japanese History: New Dimensions of Approach and Understanding(1961)
- Twelve Doors to Japan(1965) with Richard K. Beardsley
- Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan(1968) with Marius Jansen
- Japan, from Prehistory to Modern Times(1970)
- Japan in the Muromachi Age(1977) with Toyoda Takeshi
- The Cambridge history of Japan(1988- )
Honors
[change|change source]- Order of the Sacred Treasure[2]
- Japan Foundation Award, 1976[8]
Since 1994, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) has awarded theJohn Whitney Hall Book Prizefor an English language book published on Japan[9]or Korea.[10]
References
[change|change source]- ↑"John Whitney Hall papers,"[permanent dead link]Yale University Library
- ↑2.02.12.22.32.42.5Scott, Janny."John W. Hall, Historian of Japan, Dies at 81,"New York Times,October 27, 1997.
- ↑Conlon, Frank. F. (1997)."John Whitney Hall, 1916-1997,"World History Archives. Retrieved 2012-12-6.
- ↑Hardacre, Helen.(1998).The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States,p. 92.
- ↑Hardacre,p. 57.
- ↑"Ishida Gives Hall Lecture,"MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Fall 2010. Retrieved 2011-12-6.
- ↑WorldCat Identities:Hall, John Whitney 1916-
- ↑"Japan Foundation Award, 1976".Archived fromthe originalon 2012-06-06.Retrieved2011-12-06.
- ↑"John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-11-24.Retrieved2011-12-06.
- ↑Since 2010, theJames B. Palais Book PrizeArchived2011-11-24 at theWayback Machineof the AAS has honored work on Korean subjects.