1. Arthur Waldron was born on December 13,1948 and is an American historian.
12 Facts About Arthur Waldron
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Since 1997, Waldron has been the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the department of history at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Arthur Waldron was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 13,1948.
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Arthur Waldron studied at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, and Winchester College in England.
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Arthur Waldron is a founder and vice president of the International Assessment and Strategy Center in Washington, DC He is a former director of Asian studies with the American Enterprise Institute, a director of the American Association of Chinese Studies, a member of the board of the Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Arthur Waldron has lived and studied in China, Japan, Taiwan, France, England, and the former Soviet Union, where he earned a certificate in Russian language proficiency.
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Arthur Waldron occasionally consults for the US government, and was a founding member of the Congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission as well as one of twelve outside experts on the top-secret Tilelli Commission which evaluated the CIA's China operations.
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Arthur Waldron studied Ming Dynasty history at Harvard, during which he focused on why the relationship between the sedentary Ming and the nomadic Mongols who lived to the north often turned hostile.
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Also while at Princeton Arthur Waldron began working on the history and diplomacy of the early Republican period in China.
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In 1992, Waldron published MacMurray's memorandum of 1935, which foresaw the coming of conflict between the United States and Japan and was greatly esteemed by such later diplomats as George F Kennan, with introduction and notes.
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Arthur Waldron is currently working on a study of the attempts to create a constitutional order in the aftermath of the Qing Dynasty.
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Arthur Waldron is a frequent commentator and critic of the Chinese government and American foreign policy towards China.