Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1900, July 29 | Born, Washington, D.C. |
| 1913-1914 | Attended College Classique Cantonal, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1915-1919 | Attended St. Bees School, Cumberland, England |
| 1920 | Engaged in export-import business in Shanghai, China |
| 1921 | Assistant editor of newspaper in Tientsin, China |
| 1922-1926 | Employed by Arnold & Co., Tientsin and Peking, China |
| 1926 | Married Eleanor Holgate of Evanston, Ill. |
| 1926-1927 | Traveled with his wife by rail and camel from Peking, China, through Inner Mongolia, the Etsin Gol, the Black Gobi, and Kashmir, Pakistan, to Bombay, India, then by ship to Italy |
| 1928-1929 | Attended Harvard Graduate School, Cambridge, Mass., and Harvard-Yenching Institute, Yenching, China |
| 1929-1930 | Researched in Manchuria under Social Sciences Research Council |
| 1930-1931 | Researched in Peiping, China, under Harvard-Yenching Institute, Yenching, China |
| 1931-1933 | Researched under J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, N.Y. |
| 1934-1937 | Field work in Mongolia and research in Peiping, China, under Institute of Pacific Relations |
| 1934-1941 | Editor, Pacific Affairs |
| 1938-1963 | Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. |
| 1939-1953 | Director, Walter Hines Page School of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. |
| 1941-1942 | Political advisor to Chiang Kai-shek |
| 1942-1944 | Director, Pacific Operations, United States Office of War Information |
| 1945-1946 | Member, United States Reparations Mission to Japan |
| 1950 | Chief, United Nations Technical Aid Exploratory Mission to Afghanistan |
| 1951 | Investigated by Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a communist sympathizer and Soviet spy; indicted on seven counts of perjury |
| 1955 | Perjury indictments dismissed by United States District Court |
| 1958-1959 | Visiting lectureships, Vlieme Section, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France |
| 1963-1970 | Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, England |
| 1965 | Chichele Lecturer, Oxford University, Oxford, England |
| 1982 | Visiting Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. |
| 1989, May 31 | Died, Providence, R.I. |