quân tử = gentleman
![JKW in Michigan](https://campuspress.yale.edu/whitmore/files/2020/10/JKW_TANguyen_Michigan_-1024x677.jpg)
Professor John K. Whitmore at the University of Michigan with Thuy Anh Nguyen (Lecturer in Vietnamese Language, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures)
![John Whitmore at the China/Vietnam border](https://campuspress.yale.edu/whitmore/files/2020/11/JKW_SunLaichen-1024x768.jpg)
John Whitmore, the gentleman (junzi / quân tử /君子) at the China / Vietnam border. Photograph courtesy of Sun Laichen.