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during World War II. In addition to his work as an editor, Professor Mote wrote 23 different chapters in the books of the series. Near the end of his life he published the massive book
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Mote married Ch’en Hsiao-Lan in China in 1950. She survived him after a marriage of 55 years and donated his collection of 6,000 books to the
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library at
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but was unable to go to flight school for medical reasons. Due to a college course he took in
Chinese language the year before, the Air Force sent Mote to
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in 1949, he was working as a language officer for the U.S. Embassy. Forced to leave China in 1950, he continued his studies in the United States at the
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Princeton and the two men worked closely together for the next eight years, co-editing volumes 7 and 8 of
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Oriental
Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power
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