Historian of early China, University of California, Berkeley, 1969-1998
By: David N. Keightley ; with an introduction by David Johnson. Interviews conducted by Frances Starn in 2001. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Starn, Frances.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2003
Subjects: Keightley, David N.; University of California, Berkeley -- Faculty -- Interviews.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of History -- History.; China -- Study and teaching -- California -- Berkeley.
Other titles: University history series. Department of History at Berkeley.
Description: Personal background and education; Amherst College, 1949-1953, and a Fulbright year in France, 1953-1954; early career in publishing and writing, 1954-1962; graduate work at Columbia and Taiwan, 1963-1969; life and work in Berkeley, with time in China; chair of the History Department, 1992-1994; reflections on genius, chance, and origins; academic contributions, institutional and individual; afterhoughts about Taiwan, Berkeley, war, and life.