James Robert Hightower | |||||||||||
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| Born | May 7, 1915 Sulphur, Oklahoma, United States | ||||||||||
| Died | January 8, 2006 (aged 90) | ||||||||||
| Education | Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.) University of Colorado Boulder (B.A.) | ||||||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||||||
| Fields | Chinese poetry, translation | ||||||||||
| Academic advisors | Serge Elisséeff Achilles Fang | ||||||||||
| Notable students | David R. Knechtges Victor H. Mair | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 海陶瑋 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 海陶玮 | ||||||||||
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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.