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Albert M. Craig is a historian of Japan known best, perhaps, for his survey textbooks of East Asian history. He is professor emeritus of History at [[Harvard University]], where he taught from 1959 until his retirement.

Craig earned his BA from Northwestern University, and studied at Strasbourg University in France, and at [[Kyoto University]], [[University of Tokyo]], and [[Keio Universities]] before earning his PhD from Harvard. He served as head of the Harvard-Yenching Institute from 1976-1987, and has taught as a visiting professor at both Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo. He was awarded the [[Order of the Rising Sun]] in 1988.

As of 2011, Craig was working on a project researching the writings of [[Fukuzawa Yukichi]]. He is married to [[Teruko Craig]], translator of a number of works, including ''[[Musui's Story]]'', the autobiography of late [[Edo period]] samurai [[Katsu Kokichi]].

==Selected Works==
*''Choshu in the Meiji Restoration'' (1961)
*''Personality in Japanese History'' (ed., 1970)
*''Japan: A Comparative View'' (ed., 1973)
*''East Asia: Tradition and Transformation'' (co-authored with [[John K. Fairbank]] and [[Edwin O. Reischauer]], 1989)
*''The Heritage of Chinese Civilization'' (2011)
*''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'' (2011)

==References==
*"About the Author," Craig, ''The Heritage of Chinese Civilization'', Third Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), xii.

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