Ernest P. Young

Ernest P. Young is an American historian of China and East Asia who focused his research on the Catholic Church in China, Sino-Japanese relations, and Yuan Shikai's presidency. He taught at the University of Michigan from 1968 to 2002.

Biography

Young earned a PhD in History and Far Eastern Languages at Harvard University in 1965. Young worked as a professor of oriental history at Dartmouth College and as assistant to Edwin O. Reischauer, the US Ambassador to Japan.[1] Young moved to the University of Michigan in 1968, was promoted to professor in 1974, and retired in 2002 to become an emeritus professor.[2]

During the Vietnam War, his venture to Japan to interview a group of young anti-war deserters known as "The Intrepid Four" made headlines.[1]

His marriage to foreign policy expert Marilyn B. Young, a professor at New York University, ended in divorce.[3] He later remarried M. Brady Mikusko, a life coach and mediator.

Works
  • Young, Ernest P. (1977). The presidency of Yuan Shih-k'ai. University of Michigan Press.
  • Lieberthal, Kenneth; Lin, Shuen-fu; Young, Ernest P., eds. (1997). Constructing China: The Interaction of Culture and Economics. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-89264-121-5.
  • Young, Ernest P. (2013). Ecclesiastical Colony: China's Catholic Church and the French Religious Protectorate. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-992462-2.

References
  1. Trumbull, Robert (5 November 1967). "4 U.S. Deserters Sought in Japan; Police Hunting Carrier Men Upon Request by Navy". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  2. "Ernest P. Young". History, University of Michigan. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  3. Dudziak, Mary L. (1 May 2017). "Marilyn B. Young (1937-2017)". Perspectives on History. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
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