Nathaniel Peffer (; June 30, 1890 in
New York City
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– April 12, 1964) was an American researcher on East Asian issues.
Educated at the
University of Chicago
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, Peffer became an East Asian correspondent for the ''
New York Tribune'', and lived in
China for 25 years. After invitations to lecture on East Asia at various American universities, he was appointed a lecturer at
Columbia University
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in 1937, associate professor of International Relations there in 1939, and Professor in 1943. He retired from the university in 1958.
['In Memoriam: Nathaniel Peffer']
Literary works
* ''The white man's dilemma - climax of the age of imperialism'', 1927
* ''China - the collapse of a civilization'', 1930
* ''Must we fight in Asia?'', 1935
* ''Japan and the Pacific''. 1935
* ''The Far East, a modern history''.
Ann Arbor,
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
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Press, 1958
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1890 births
1964 deaths
International relations scholars
University of Chicago alumni
American journalists
American expatriates in China
Columbia University faculty
American sinologists
American political scientists
20th-century political scientists
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