Frederick W. Mote | |||||||
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| Born | June 2, 1922 Plainview, Nebraska, United States | ||||||
| Died | February 10, 2005 (aged 82) Aurora, Colorado, United States | ||||||
| Alma mater | University of Nanjing University of Washington (Ph.D. 1954) | ||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||
| Fields | Chinese history | ||||||
| Institutions | Princeton University | ||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Franz H. Michael | ||||||
| Doctoral students | Gilbert Rozman Peter Lighte | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 牟復禮 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 牟复礼 | ||||||
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Frederick Wade "Fritz" Mote (June 2, 1922 – February 10, 2005) was an American sinologist and a professor of History at Princeton University for nearly 50 years. His research and teaching interests focused on China during the Yuan and Ming dynasties. In collaboration with Denis C. Twitchett and John K. Fairbank he helped create The Cambridge History of China, a monumental (though still incomplete) history of China.