James E. Sheridan

Jim Sheridan
Sheridan, as a US Navy seaman in 1941 and fighter pilot in 1945
Born James Edward Sheridan
(1922-07-15)July 15, 1922
Wilmington, Delaware
Died December 21, 2015(2015-12-21) (aged 93)
Hanover, New Hampshire
Nationality United States
Spouse(s) Sonia Landy Sheridan
Awards
Academic background
Alma mater
Thesis  (1961)
Academic work
Institutions
Main interests Modern Chinese history
Notable works
  • China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History 1912-1949
  • Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang

James Edward Sheridan (July 15, 1922 – December 21, 2015), also known as Jim Sheridan, was a professor emeritus in the Department of History at Northwestern University and the author of a number of books on modern Chinese history, such as China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History and the biography Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yu-Hsiang.[1]

Biography

Sheridan was born in Wilmington, Delaware. At the outset of World War II, he enlisted in the US Navy. Later he trained others in the use of radar. He served as an ensign in the United States Navy, 1941-1946.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois in 1949, and a Master of Arts from the same institution in 1950. After the war he continued his education on the GI bill, studied Russian, then Chinese on grants in Paris, Taiwan, and Japan. He was a Fulbright fellow in France, 1950-1951; Ford Foundation fellow, 1958-1960; and a grantee of the American Council of Learned Societies - Social Science Research Council, 1966-1967 and 1971-72. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961.

He taught at Stanford University, then accepted the position of teaching Chinese history at Northwestern University where he remained until 1989. At Northwestern he was the History Department chair, director of the Program of African Asian Languages, and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.[2][3] He wrote three books on modern Chinese history and contributed to other books on the same general subject.[4][5][6][7]

He retired with his wife, the artist and researcher Sonia Landy Sheridan, to the Kendal Community in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he was very active in the cultural life of the center. As a historian he wrote the history and values of Kendal, A Caring Community and Untie the Elderly. He wrote articles for that organization, editing Kendalights for 17 years. He died in Hanover, aged 93.

Published works

  • Sheridan, James E. (1975). China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History 1912-1949. New York: The Free Press, a division of Macmillan Publishing Co. doi:10.1080/03612759.1976.9945294. [1]
  • Sheridan, James E. (1966). Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang. Stanford University Press. [8] 978-0804701457
  • Sheridan, Sonia Landy. Sheridan, James E., ed. Art at the Dawning of the Electronic Era: Generative Systems. University Press of New England. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 Botjer, George F. (1976-02-01). "China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History, 1912–1949". History: Reviews of New Books. 4 (4): 85–85. doi:10.1080/03612759.1976.9945294. ISSN 0361-2759.
  2. ↑ "James E. Sheridan". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  3. ↑ "Back Matter". The China Quarterly (106): 403–404. 1986. JSTOR 653460.
  4. ↑ "James Edward Sheridan". Valley News. December 31, 2015.
  5. ↑ Sheridan, James (1984). "Review of Arming the Chinese: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920-1928". The Journal of Asian Studies. 43 (2): 306–308. doi:10.2307/2055321. JSTOR 2055321.
  6. ↑ Buck, David D. "Chung-kuo hsien-tai-hua te ch'ü-yü yen-chiu: Shan-tung sheng, 1860–1916 [Modernization in China, 1860–1916: A Regional Study of Social, Political, and Economic Change in Shantung Province]. By Yu-Fa Chang. Taipei: Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History (Monograph no. 43), 1982. 2 vols., 885 pp. Maps, Tables, Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $17.50 (cloth); $15. (paper)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 43 (2): 308–310. doi:10.2307/2055322. ISSN 1752-0401.
  7. ↑ "CHINESE GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER REFERENCES". www.hawaii.edu.
  8. ↑ Sheridan, James E. (1966). Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang. Stanford University Press.
  9. ↑ Art at the Dawning of the Electronic Era: Generative Systems. Sheridan, Sonia Landy, 1925-. Hanover, New Hampshire. ISBN 0615888690. OCLC 863078145.
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