>Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:16:35 +0100
>Subject: Fred Wakeman
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>From: EACS - The Treasurer<[log in to unmask]>
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>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Many of you have heard that Fred Wakeman died last night. Fred, of
>course, was a distinguished member of the Berkeley faculty, a chair of the
>Center for Chinese Studies from 1972 to 1979, director of the Institute of
>East Asian Studies from 1990-2000, and a towering figure in the study of
>Chinese history. He's left an untold number of students behind to carry
>on, and his books and articles will be read for a very long time to
>come. Fred will be sorely missed.
>
>
>Kevin J. O'Brien
>Chair, Center for Chinese Studies
>University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1950
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Norman Stockman
Department of Sociology
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3QY
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/staff/details.php?id=42
Hon. Sec., British Association for Chinese Studies
http://www.bacsuk.org.uk/
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