Dorothy Borg (September 4, 1902

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– October 25, 1993

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) was an American historian specializing in American-East Asian relations. Although she did not hold faculty appointments, her multi-archival and assiduous scholarship set high standards and her organization of international scholarly cooperation and exchange influenced the field of American history of foreign relations. Her research focused mainly on United States relations with China in the decades between World War I and the arrival in power of the Chinese Revolution in 1949.

Awards

* She received the 1965

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for her monograph, ''The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis, 1933-1938''.

Works

* ''American Policy and the Chinese Revolution, 1925-1928'' (New York: American Institute of Pacific Relations; Macmillan, 1947; rpr. New York: Octagon, 1968. *''The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis, 1933-1938'' (Harvard University Press, 1965) * *

References

1902 births 1996 deaths Writers from Long Branch, New Jersey Wellesley College alumni Columbia University alumni Historians of American foreign relations American women historians 20th-century American historians 20th-century American women writers Bancroft Prize winners Historians from New Jersey {{US-historian-stub