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Paul Wheatley received Ph.D. and D. Lit. degrees from the University of London, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has taught in the Universities of Malaya (Singapore), California (Berkeley), and London (University College London), and is currently the Irving B. Harris Professor of Social Thought in the University of Chicago. His publications include The Golden Khersonese (Singapore: University of Malaya Press, 1961); The Pivot of the Four Quarters (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1971); (with Thomas See) From Court to Capital (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978); La Città Come Simbolo (Brèscia: Editrice Morcelliana S.p.A., 1981); and (with Kernial Singh Sandhu, eds.) Melaka, 2 vols. (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Oxford University Press, 1983).