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John Pomfret

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Milwaukee, The United States

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http://www.johnpomfret.net

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JEPomfret

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Nonfiction, Professional & Technical, Travel

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John Pomfret is an American journalist and writer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in New York. He attended Stanford University, receiving his B.A. and M.A. in East Asian Studies. In 1980, he was one of the first American students to go to China and study at Nanjing University. Between 1983 and 1984 he attended Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies as a Fulbright Scholar, researching the Cambodian conflict.

He started his journalistic career at the Stanford Daily as a photographer, from where he was fired. After that he worked at a newspaper in Riverside County, California, and after a year was hired by Associated Press to work in New York, covering the graveyard shift.

After two years with the AP in New York, in 198...more

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Books by John Pomfret

Average rating: 3.89 · 387 ratings · 84 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China 389 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Poems on Several Occasions by John Pomfret (1778) 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Choice a Poem / By a Person of Quality. (1700) 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Poems Upon Several Occasions. by the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. Viz. I. the Choice. ... VI. on the Conflagration, and Last Judgment. the Twelfth Editi 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Poems Upon Several Occasions. by the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. Viz. I. the Choice. ... VI. on the Conflagration and Last Judgment. the Twelfth Editio 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Poems Upon Several Occasions. by the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. ... the Tenth Edition, Corrected. with Some Account of His Life and Writings. to Which 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Poems Upon Several Occasions, by the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. Viz. I. the Choice. ... VI. on the Conflagration, ... the Eleventh Edition, Corrected 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Poems Upon Several Occasions. by the Reverend MR John Pomfret. to Which Are Added His Remains. with Some Account of His Life and Writings 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Poems on Several Occasions. by the Reverend MR John Pomfret. Viz. 1. the Choice. ... 6. on the Conflagration, and Last Judgment. with Some Account of 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Poems Upon Several Occasions. by the Late Revd. Mr. Pomfret. Viz. I. the Choice II. Love Triumphant Over Reason. ... the Fourth Edition, Corrected 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: