Frederic Wakeman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederic Wakeman

American sinologist

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1937

Place of Birth: Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Date of Death: 14-Sep-2006

Profession: screenwriter, historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr.
(Chinese: ???; pinyin: Wèi Feidé; December 12, 1937 – September 14, 2006) 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."