Background
Rowe, David Nelson was born on October 21, 1905 in Nanking, China. Son of Harry Fleming and Margaret (Nelson) Rowe.
Rowe, David Nelson was born on October 21, 1905 in Nanking, China. Son of Harry Fleming and Margaret (Nelson) Rowe.
AB, Princeton University, 2027. AM, University Southern California, 1930. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1935.
Student, Harvard University, 1935—1937. Student, College Chinese Studies, Peking, China, 1937—1938. Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1950.
Assistant instructor department history University Southern California, 1929—1931. Research assistant social science University Chicago, 1931—1933, fellow history, 1933—1935, instructor history, summer, 1935. Lecturer Far Eastern Affairs, Princeton University, 1938—1943.
Special assistant to director branch research and analysis Office of Strategic Services, 1941—1942. Special research technical Chungking, China, 1941—1942. Consultant experimental division study wartime communications Library.
Congress, 1943; associate Yale University, New Haven, since 1943. Research associate Institute International Studies, 1943—1951, associate professor international relations, 1945—1950. Director Staff Officers School Asiatic Studies, 1945—1946, Chinese, Japanese and Russian Studies, 1946—1948, professor political science, 1950—1974, emeritus professor, since 1974.
Research professor political science, 1958—1959. Director graduate studies, international relations, 1958—1960, 1965—1967. Director study human resources, 1951—1954.
Associate government Barnard College, 1945—1946. Associate director Princeton Bicentennial Conference Chinese Society and Culture, 1947. Visiting professor political science University Michigan, 1947.
Postwar fellow humanities Rockefeller Foundation, 1948. Visiting professor political science National Taiwan University, 1954—1956. Visiting professor history Trinity College, 1962—1963.
Representative Asia Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, 1954—1956. Distinguished visiting professor international studies Troy State University, 1978. Fellow Trumbull College, San Francisco, 1945.
National co-chairman Scholars Nixon-Agnew, 1968. Chairman National Council Scholars, 1969—1975. Visiting research scholar Institute International Relations, China, 1974—1975.
Adjunct professor political science Arizona State University, 1980.
Member of University Professors Academy Order (president 1977-1978), American Association Teachers Chinese Language and Culture (executive committee member, past president).
Married Kathryn Ingram Rowe, April 2, 1938. Children: Andrew Stewart, Robert Ingram.