Young earned an A.B and PhD in History and Far Eastern Languages at Harvard University in 1965.
Young worked as a professor of oriental history at Dartmouth College and as assistant to Edwin O. Reischauer, the US Ambassador to Japan.
[4] Young's publications ranged from Yuan Shikai's presidency to the French imperialist project supporting the Catholic Church in China, and Sino-Japanese relations.
During the Vietnam War, his travel to Japan to interview a group of American anti-war deserters known as "The Intrepid Four" made headlines.
[1] "Memoir: Ernest P. Young", Faculty History Project, University of Michigan, 2011 This biography of an American historian is a stub.