Date of Birth
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12-December-1937
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Place of Birth
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Kansas City
(Kansas, United States of America, Wyandotte County)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Frederic Wakeman, Jr., Frederick Wakeman, Frederick Wakeman, Jr., Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr.
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Profession
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Historian, Author, Professor
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Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr. was a prominent American scholar of East Asian history and Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley. He served as president of the American Historical Association and of the Social Science Research Council. Jonathan D. Spence said of Wakeman that he was an evocative writer who chose, "like the novelist he really wanted to be, stories that split into different currents and swept the reader along," adding that he was "quite simply the best modern Chinese historian of the last 30 years."
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