Derk bodde biography of abraham lincoln
By DERK BODDE.
Biography, manners and customs, and their religious teachings / edited by Abraham Lincoln: condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln, a....
Sinological Profiles
Derk Bodde
9 Mar 1909 (Brant Rock MA) - 3 Nov 2003 (Germantown PA)
Derk Bodde was an energetic scholar and an experienced person.
He had integrity. His grasp of situations, however, was low, and when he attempted to analyze something on his own, he typically fell short. His name endures chiefly in works whose authority comes from other sources: his translations of Tun Li-ch'en (Annual Customs and Festivals in Peking, 1936 rev 1965) and Fung Yulan (History of Chinese Philosophy, 1937 [rev 1952] and 1953), his eyewitness account of the transition from Nationalist to Communist government in China (Peking Diary: A Year of Revolution, 1950, repr 1967 and 1976), and his collaboration with Clarence Morris (Law in Imperial China, 1967, repr 1973).
Chance put Bodde in many of the right places at the right times, but little more emerged from those encounters than the record of an interested and, as the years passed, an increasingly concerned, spectator.
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