Guy Salvatore Alitto (Chinese: 艾恺; pinyin: Ai Kai) is an American academic in the History and East Asian Languages and Civilization Departments at the University of Chicago.
He is best known in America for his scholarship and for his role as translator for the first official Chinese delegations to the United States after Richard Nixon's first visits to China.
[2] His first book (published by University of California Press in 1979), The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity, won the John K. Fairbank Prize.
His Rural Reconstruction project in Zouping County, Shandong, drew national attention but was destroyed in the Japanese Invasion of 1937.
The Yale historian Jonathan Spence wrote in the New York Times "Sunday Book Review" that it was an "engrossing study" in which Liang was "lucky to have found a biographer who takes him seriously.