Mary C. Wright

Mary Clabaugh Wright was an American sinologist and historian who specialized in the study of late Qing dynasty and early 20th century China. She was the first woman to gain tenure in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University, and subsequently the first woman to be appointed a full professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale. Wright's influential 1957 monograph The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism argued that the mid-19th century T'ung Chih Restoration failed because "the requirements of modernization ran counter to the requirements of Confucian stability." She was married to historian Arthur F. Wright.