Frederic Evans Wakeman Jr. | |
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| Born | December 12, 1937 Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | September 14, 2006 (aged 68) Lake Oswego, Oregon, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | East Asia |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Levenson |
| Notable students | Mark Elliott, Joseph Esherick, Madeleine Zelin, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Orville Schell |
Frederic Evans Wakeman Jr. (Chinese: 魏斐德; pinyin: Wèi Fěidé; December 12, 1937 – September 14, 2006) was an 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".[1]