Frederic Wakeman Jr. Biography

Frederic Wakeman Jr. (December 12, 1937–September 14, 2006) received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1965. Wakeman became a full professor in 1971, and was the Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies at Berkeley when he retired.

Bibliography

Strangers at the gate; social disorder in South China, 1839-1861, by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

Modern East Asia: essays in interpretation. Volume editor: James B. Crowley. Contributors: Frederic Wakeman, Jr. [and others] Under the general editorship of John Morton Blum. New York; Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970.

"Nothing concealed": essays in honor of Liu Yü-yün, edited by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. Taipei: Ch'eng wen ch'u pan she: distributed by Chinese Materials and Research Aids Service Center, 1970.

History and will: philosophical perspectives of Mao Tse-tung's thought, by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

The fall of imperial China, by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. New York: Free Press, 1975.

The great enterprise: the Manchu reconstruction of imperial order in seventeenth century China, by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Shanghai sojourners, edited by Frederic Wakeman, Jr., and Wen-hsin Yeh. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California: Center for Chinese Studies, 1992.

Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937, by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

The Shanghai Badlands: wartime terrorism and urban crime, 1937-1941, by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

China's quest for modernization: a historical perspective, edited by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. and Wang Xi. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California: Berkeley, 1997.

Poisoned arrows: The Stalin-Choibalsan Mongolian massacres, 1921-1941, by Shagdariin Sandag, Harry H. Kendall; with foreword by Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.

Reappraising Republican China, edited by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. and Richard Louis Edmonds. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese secret service, by Frederic Wakeman, jr. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.