Background
Wakeman, Frederic Evans was born on December 12, 1937 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.
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The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941: 1st (First) Edition
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Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Philip E.Lilienthal Books)
( Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketee...)
Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and collaboration between the Nationalist secret police and the Shanghai underworld. In detailing the life and politics of China's largest urban center during the Guomindang era, Wakeman covers an array of topics: the puritanical social controls implemented by the police; the regional differences that surfaced among Shanghai's Chinese, the influence of imperialism and Western-trained officials. Parts of this book read like a spy novel, with secret police, torture, assassination; and power struggles among the French, International Settlement, and Japanese consular police within Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to prove that the Chinese could rule Shanghai and the country by themselves, rather than be exploited and dominated by foreign powers. His efforts to reclaim the crime-ridden city failed, partly because of the outbreak of war with Japan in 1937, but also because the Nationalist police force was itself corrupted by the city. Wakeman's exhaustively researched study is a major contribution to the study of the Nationalist regime and to modern Chinese urban history. It also shows that twentieth-century China has not been characterized by discontinuity, because autocratic government—whether Nationalist or Communist—has prevailed.
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Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861
( Now available again, this pioneering work examines one ...)
Now available again, this pioneering work examines one of the most controversial periods in Chinese history: the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion, one the most calamitous events in Chinese history. Wakeman shows how prevailing rural discontent, urban riots, secret society activity, and the imbalance of class and clan affected the mechanisms of regional power and gentry control, demonstrating the progression of rebellion and the historical inevitability of revolution.
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The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China: Volume 2 (v. 2)
( In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winnin...)
In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. (This book was originally published as a boxed two-volume set. It is now available as separate volumes with plain hardcover. The page numbering continues from the first volume to the second.)
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- Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-61
- The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941 (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions) (Between August 1937 and December 1941, terrorist wars bro...)
Frederic Evans Wakeman
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Frederic Evans Wakeman, American Historian educator. Harvard National scholar, 1955-1959; Tower fellow, 1959-1960; Foreign Area fellow, 1963-1965; American Council Learned Socs. fellow, 1967-1968; Guggenheim fellow, 1973-1974; National Research Council fellow, 1985. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Council on Foreign Rels., American History Association (president), American Philosophical Society.
Education
Bachelor, Harvard College, 1959; postgraduate, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, U. Paris, 1959-1960 Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1965.
Career
Assistant professor of history, University of California, Berkeley, 1965-1967;
associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1968-1970;
professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1970-1989;
Haas professor Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, since 1989;
director Center Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1979;
humanities research professor, visiting scholar, Corpus Christi College, U. Cambridge, England, 1976-1977;
humanities research professor, visiting scholar, Beijing U., 1980-1981, 85. Academic adviser United States Ednl. Delaware for Study in China.
Chairman Joint Committee Chinese Studies American Council Learned Socs./Social Science Research Council. Senior adviser Beijing office NAS. President Social Science Research Council, 1986-1989, Chairman of Commission on scholarly committee with China, since 1995.
Director Institute East Asian Studies, Berkeley, since 1990.
Works
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Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861
( Now available again, this pioneering work examines one ...)
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The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941 (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)
(Between August 1937 and December 1941, terrorist wars bro...)
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Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Philip E.Lilienthal Books)
( Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketee...)
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The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China: Volume 2 (v. 2)
( In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winnin...)
- Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-61
- The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941: 1st (First) Edition
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Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861
Membership
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Council on Foreign Rels., American History Association (president), American Philosophical Society.
Connections
Son of Frederic Evans and Margaret Ruth (Keyes) W. Divorced; children: Frederic Evans III, Matthew Clark, Sarah Elizabeth.
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Nationality
American
Awards
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Harvard National scholar, 1955-1959. Tower fellow, 1959-1960. Foreign Area fellow, 1963-1965. American Council Learned Socs. fellow, 1967-1968. Guggenheim fellow, 1973-1974. National Research Council fellow, 1985.Harvard National scholar, 1955-1959. Tower fellow, 1959-1960. Foreign Area fellow, 1963-1965.
American Council Learned Socs. fellow, 1967-1968. Guggenheim fellow, 1973-1974. National Research Council fellow, 1985.