Background
Beers, Burton Floyd was born on September 13, 1927 in Chemung, New York, United States. Son of Franklyn McDowell and Alice (Wood) Beers.
Beers, Burton Floyd was born on September 13, 1927 in Chemung, New York, United States. Son of Franklyn McDowell and Alice (Wood) Beers.
Bachelor cum laude, Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1950. Master of Arts, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, 1956.
Instructor, assistant professor history North Carolina State College, Raleigh, 1955—1961. Associate professor, professor North Carolina State University, 1963—1996, professor emeritus, since 1996. Head history department North Carolina State University, 1981—1985.
Post-doctoral studies Japanese Civilization Asia Society Duke University, 1957. Post-doctoral fellow East Asian Studies Ford Foundation Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959—1960. Fulbright visiting professor American Studies National Taiwan University, Taipei, 1966—1967.
Consultant National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1984. Consultant East Asia North Carolina Department Public Instruction, 1970—1974.
(Old Photographs of China from 1860-1910)
Member advisory board China Council, New York City, 1977—1981. Member of Association Asian Studies (Southeast Regional Conference), World History Association, Association Historians of America Foreign Relations.
Married Pauline Elizabeth Cone, September 6, 1952. Children: Martha McDowell Beers Williams, Burton Floyd Junior.