Books By Lo Jung-pang - Author

Lo Jung-pang (1912-1981) was the premier Western-language historian of China's maritime history. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Before becoming a full professor at the University of California, Davis in 1969, he had taught at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and the University of Washington.

Lo's scholarly interests were extraordinarily wide-ranging in terms of both topics and chronological scope, reflecting a command of several Western languages and an intimate acquaintance with Chinese sources written over a period of more than two thousand years. Although he is best known for his many ground-breaking contributions to China's military and naval history, he also wrote on political and economic topics.

In addition, he produced a book titled K'ang Yu-wei: A Biography and a Symposium which has been described as "laying a new foundation for expanded studies of one of mod