Wakeman, Frederic Evans, Jr.

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WAKEMAN, Frederic Evans, Jr.

WAKEMAN, Frederic Evans, Jr. Also writes as Evans Wakeman. American, b. 1937. Genres: Novels, History, International relations/Current affairs, Politics/Government. Career: University of California, Berkeley, professor of Chinese history, 1965-, chairman, Center for Chinese Studies, 1972-79, director, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1990-2001, Haas Professor of Asian Studies, 1990-. Inter-University Program in Chinese Language Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, director, 1967-68; Social Science Research Council, president, 1986-89; American Historical Association, president, 1991-92. Publications: (as Evans Wakeman) Seventeen Royal Palms Drive (novel), 1961; Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1966; (ed.) Nothing Concealed: Essays in Honor of Liu Yu-Yun, 1970; History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of the Thought of Mao Tse-tung, 1973; Conflict and Control in Late Imperial China, 1975; The Fall of Imperial China, 1975; Ming and Qing Historical Studies in the People's Republic of China, 1980; The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth Century China, 1985; Shanghai Sojourners, 1992; Policing Shanghai 1927-37, 1995; The Shanghai Badlands 1937-1941, 1996; Reap- praising Republican China, 2000. Address: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2223 Fulton St, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.