Robert Elegant

Robert Sampson Elegant (born March 7, 1928 in New York City , USA ) is an American author and university professor who mainly deals with Asian topics.

Life

Elegant studied at the University of Pennsylvania , where he received his bachelor's degree . At this university he belonged to the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity . At Columbia University in New York City, he completed the tray Far East studies with the Master of Arts (MA) and the specialized journalism with the Master of Science from (MS). His study of the Chinese he finished at the Yale University .

Elegant was visiting professor at the University of South Carolina and Boston University , which also kept an archive of his war correspondent records during the Korean War . He is proficient in both classical and modern Chinese and Japanese . He also speaks German and Italian as well as a little Indonesian .

Private

From 1956 until her cancer death in 1999 Elegant was married to the painter Moira Clarissa Brady , whom he married in New Delhi , India . Since 2003 he has lived with his second wife in London and Italy .

The Chinese breed of dogs Shih Tzu is an elegant breed . He has been sailing and driving motor boats for 50 years.

Awards and honors

• Distinguished Alumnus Award . from Columbia University, New York City.
• 1967 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Edgar) for his 1966 thriller A Kind of Treason .
• A total of four awards from the Overseas Press Club of America for best representation of foreign news.
• a total of three nominations for the Pulitzer Prize in the foreign reporting category.
• Scholarship holder of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC , USA.
• Scholarship holder at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .
• Fellow of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University .

Publications

Non-fiction

• China's Red Masters . Twayne, 1951.
  • Revised edition: China's Red Masters: Political Biographies of the Chinese Communist Leaders . Greenwood Press, 1971.
  • China's Red Leaders . Bodley Head, England 1952.
  • China's Red Men: The Political Biographies of China's Communist Leaders. translated by Michael Kogon. Publishing house of Frankfurter Hefte , Frankfurt am Main 1952.
• The Dragon's Seed, Beijing and the Overseas Chinese . St Martin's Press, New York City 1959.
• The Center of the World . Doubleday 1964.
  • Revised edition: Center of the World: Communism & the Mind of China . Funk, 1968.
  • German by Dieter Flamm: Red Roof of the World, China . Droste, Düsseldorf 1963.
• Mao's Great Revolution . World Publishing, 1971.
• Mao vs. Chiang: The Battle for China 1925-1949 . Grosset & Dunlap, 1972.
• The Great Cities: Hong Kong. Time-Life, 1977, ISBN 0-7054-0493-5 .
  • in German by Rudolf Hernstein: Hongkong . Time-Life International, Amsterdam 1977, ISBN 90-6182-270-X .
• Pacific Destiny: Inside Asia Today . Hamilton, London 1990, ISBN 0-241-12756-4 .
  • The future of the Far East: The Asian century has already begun. A look behind the scenes of the economic powers of tomorrow. translated by Henning Thies. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-04769-9 .

Fiction

• A kind of Treason . Holt, 1966.
  • Just a little war. Droemer / Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1967.
• The Seeking . Funk, 1969.
  • as Penguin Book, 1982, ISBN 0-14-005306-9 .
  • The warriors of Kamardol. Novel, translated by Karl A. Kiewer. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-499-13282-6 .
• Dynasty . McGraw, 1976.
  • The Dynasty: A trading house in Hong Kong. Novel translated by Margaret Carroux . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-498-01615-6 .
• Manchu . McGraw, 1979.
  • Manchu. Novel translated by Margaret Carroux. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-498-01627-X .
• Mandarin . Simon & Schuster, 1983.
  • Mandarin. Novel translated by Margaret Carroux. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-498-01633-4 .
• White Sun, Red Star . Hamish Hamilton, 1986.
  • From a Far Land . Random House, New York 1987, ISBN 0-394-56047-7 .
  • Storm over Shanghai . Roman, translated by Alfred Hans. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-498-01644-X .
• Bianca: A Novel of Venice . Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992.
  • Bianca: Venetian records. Roman, German by Ursula Grawe. Wunderlich, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-8052-0534-1 .
• The Everlasting Sorrow . Reed International, 1994.
  • The box of the green lotus. Novel, translated by Peter Weber-Schäfer . Wunderlich, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-8052-0558-9 .
• Last Year in Hong Kong: A Love Story . Morrow, 1997.
• The Big Brown Bears . Hale, 1998.
  • Time of the bear. Novel, translated by Maria Mill. Wunderlich, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-8052-0582-1 .
• Cry Peace . Hale, 2005, ISBN 0-7090-7828-5 .