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(1926-2010) Author. Franz Schurmann was born in Astoria, Queens, New York, and died in San Francisco, California. He was an expert on China and a co-founder of Pacific News Service.

Full Name

(Herbert) Franz Schurmann

Locations

Queens

Author's Timeline

1926

BIRTH

Herbert Franz Schurmann was born in Astoria, Queens, New York, on June 21, 1926.

1962

LITWORK

The Mongols Of Afghanistan: An Ethnography Of The Moghols And Related Peoples Of Afghanistan


Nonfiction.

1966

LITWORK

The Politics Of Escalation In Vietnam


Nonfiction co-authored with Reginald Zelnik and Peter Dale Scott.

1967

LITWORK

Republican China: Nationalism, War, And the Rise Of Communism, 1911-1949
New York: Vintage Books.

Nonfiction. Co-editer with Orville Schell. Second in The China Reader series.

1967

LITWORK

Imperial China: The Decline Of The Last Dynasty And The Origins Of Modern China, The 18th And 19th Centuries


Nonfiction co-editor with Orville Schell. First in The China Reader series.

1968

LITWORK

Ideology And Organization In Communist China


Nonfiction.

1968

LITWORK

Communist China: Revolutionary Reconstruction And International Confrontation, 1949 To The Present


Nonfiction. Co-editor with Orville Schell. Third in The China Reader series.

1974

LITWORK

The Logic Of World Power: An Inquiry Into the Origins, Currents, And Contradictions Of World Politics
Pantheon.

Nonfiction.

1987

LITWORK

The Foreign Politics Of Richard Nixon: The Grand Design
Institute Of International Studies, University Of California, Berkeley.

Nonfiction.

2001

LITWORK

American Soul


Nonfiction.

2010

DEATH

Franz Schurmann died at his home in San Francisco, California, on August 20, 2010.

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