Keith Leslie Pratt (born 27 January 1938) is a British historian and orientalist. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Studies at Durham University.
Biography Pratt was born in London and educated at Durham University, where he graduated with a BA (1962) and Dip. Ed (1963). He briefly worked as a teacher in Hartlepool before returning to Durham University in 1964 as a lecturer in Chinese.
His research interests later shifted to Korean studies and he has written numerous books and articles on Korean history and culture. He became head of the Department of East Asian Studies at Durham in 1989 and retired in 1997.
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