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• John A. Tucker, Ph.D., is a professor of Japanese and East Asian history at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. His specialization is in Japanese Confucianism. He completed his A.B. in history at Davidson College (1977), two master's degrees at the University of Hawaii (Asian philosophy 1981 and Asian history 1983), and his Ph.D. at Columbia University (1990). He has also done graduate and post-graduate work at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Kyoto University, Japan. He has been a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, and at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.In addition to numerous articles, book chapters, and book reviews, Tucker has authored translation-studies of It Jinsai's Gom jigi (Brill, 1998), and Ogy Sorai's Bend and Benmei (University of Hawaii Press, 2006). He edited a four-volume work, Critical Readings in Japanese Confucianism (Brill, 2013), and co-edited, with Chun-chieh Huang (National Taiwan University), Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy (Springer, 2016). Most recently, he authoredThe Forty-Seven Ronin: The Vendetta in History (Cambridge University Press, 2018), andGoverning the Realm and Bringing Peace to All Below Heaven (Cambridge University Press, 2021).Tucker has co-edited, with Chun-chieh Huang, an anthology of essays, Confucianism for the Twenty-First Century (V&;R Unipress Brill Academic Publishers, 2023).
  Tucker has published three picture books, John F. Kennedy's North Carolina Campaign, and a pictorial history of his university entitled, East Carolina University. Along with Arthur Carlson and Brooke Tolar, Tucker co-edited East Carolina Football. These were published by Arcadia Press.