doctoral_advisor death_place death_date birth_place citizenship fields workplaces notable_students birth_date article_title name alma_mater
joseph levenson lake oswego , oregon 14 september 2006 kansas city , kansas american east asia university of california , berkeley mark joanna handlin smith , madeleine zelin , harriet t. zurndorfer elliott , wen-hsin yeh , melissa macauley , jeffrey wasserstrom , , ann waltner , christopher a. reed , orville schell joseph esherick , linda grove , 12 december 1937 frederic wakeman
 frederic evans wakeman , jr. . harvard university , university of california , berkeley
frederic wakeman

frederic evans wakeman , jr. -lrb- ; december 12 , 1937 -- september 14 , 2006 -rrb- was a prominent 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 . ''
