Keith Leslie Pratt (born 27 January 1938) is a British
academic
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author
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historian
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, Koreanist, Sinologist and professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Studies at
Durham University
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in the United Kingdom.
[University of Chicago Press]
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Life
Pratt is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on Korea, including ''Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.''
Selected work
Pratt's published writings encompass 53 works in 76 publications in 3 languages and 2,174 library holdings.
* 2006 — ''Everlasting Flower: a History of Korea''
* 1999 — ''Korea: a Historical and Cultural Dictionary''
* 1995 — ''Korean Painting''
* 1970 — ''Visitors to China; Eyewitness Accounts of Chinese History''
Honours
* Korea Foundation
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, 2002.
* British Association for Korean Studies, secretary, 2010.[British Association for Korean Studies, BAKS]
Council, 2010
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Living people
1938 births
Koreanists
British sinologists
British orientalists
20th-century British male writers
20th-century British historians
21st-century British male writers
21st-century British historians
British male non-fiction writers
Academics of Durham University
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