Peter Rupert Lighte, a sinologist and founding chairman of J. P. Morgan Chase Bank China, who has taught Chinese history and philosophy, lived abroad for almost three decades, dividing his time between London and Asia. A regular participant in the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder, Colorado, he is on the boards of Half the Sky Foundation and Council on International Educational Exchange and is active in Princeton alumni activities. He is also the author of Pieces of China, a calligrapher, and a mosaicist. Peter and his husband Julian Grant, a distinguished English composer, live in Princeton, New Jersey, with their two daughters.