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Through profiles of some of the remarkable scholars, researchers, and teachers that have called Columbia home, Living Legacies at Columbia provides an intellectual portrait of one of the world's great universities in time for Columbia University's 250th anniversary celebration.

About the Author

Wm. Theodore de Bary is John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and Provost Emeritus of Columbia University. He is the author of many books, most recently Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good and the editor of the seminal readers published by Columbia University Press: Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Japanese Tradition, and Sources of Korean Tradition.