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F. Hilary Conroy Papers

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Call Number:
UPT 50 C754
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Extent:
2 cubic feet
Language:
English
Date:
1945-1989 (inclusive)
Creator:
Conroy, F. HIlary
Abstract:
Francis Hilary Conroy was professor of Far Eastern History at the University of Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1990. The papers of F. Hilary Conroy consist of correspondence, 1966-1989, recommendations, 1950-1986, student grades report, student papers, and syllabi of courses he taught at Penn.

Francis Hilary Conroy was born in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1919. He received his B.S. from the Northwestern University in 1941, his AM in 1942 and Ph.D. in 1949 both from the University of California. He began his career as a Lecturer of Far Eastern history at the University of California for two years before he was appointed to the history faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. He was promoted to full Professor in 1965. His publications include The Japanese frontier in Hawaii, 1868-1898 (1953), The Japanese seizure of Korea, 1868-1910: a study of realism and idealism in international relations (1960), China and Japan: search for balance since World War I (co-edited with Alvin D. Coox, 1978), and America views China: American images of China then and now (co- edited with Jonathan Goldstein and Jerry Israel, 1991). Conroy retired in 1990 and was elected Professor Emeritus of Penn.

The papers of F. Hilary Conroy consist of correspondence, 1966-1989, recommendations, 1950-1986, student grades report, student papers, and syllabi of courses he taught at Penn.

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The collection was transferred to the University Archives with the records of the History Department in 1995.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Finding Aid Author
Kaiyi Chen
Finding Aid Date
1998

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American Historical Association meetings, 1986-1987.
Box 1 Folder 1
American Images of China, Introduction, etc. [1988].
Box 1 Folder 2
American images of China discussion, 1978.
Box 1 Folder 3
Asian magazines and news clippings, 1988-1989.
Box 1 Folder 4
1985.
Box 1 Folder 5
Correspondence and minutes, 1985-1988.
Box 1 Folder 6
Bibliography, Index cards.
Box 1 Folder 7
Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS), 1968-1969.
Box 1 Folder 8
Committee on Afro-American Studies and Black history, 1968-1971.
Box 1 Folder 9
Conference on Peace Research in History, 1963.
Box 1 Folder 10
1966-1985.
Box 1 Folder 11
1985-1988.
Box 1 Folder 12
1989.
Box 1 Folder 13
East and Southeast Asian Graduate Students Society, 1983.
Box 1 Folder 14
East Asian Studies Committee (East Asian Studies Group), 1969-1985.
Box 1 Folder 15
Faculty Seminar on Social and Cultural Change, 1965.
Box 1 Folder 16
History, undergraduate and General Honors Program, 1959-1979.
Box 1 Folder 17
"How Can we Evaluate Communist China's Economic Development Performance?" by Ramon H. Myers, Comments, 1986.
Box 1 Folder 18
International Program at Penn, Information package, 1981.
Box 1 Folder 19
International Relations, Graduate Program, 1978-1986.
Box 1 Folder 20
Jacob, Philip E., 1962.
Box 1 Folder 21
King, Joanmargaret P., 1977-1978.
Box 1 Folder 22
March 4th Program, 1969.
Box 1 Folder 23
Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, Executive Committee/Advisory Council, 1984.
Box 1 Folder 24
New Tides in the Pacific, Introduction and conclusion, draft, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 25
Ozaki/Sorge correspondence, 1989.
Box 1 Folder 26
Phi Beta Kappa, 1987.
Box 1 Folder 27
Recommendations [files closed].
Articles on Japan.
Box 1 Folder 30
Asahi Sampler, 1984.
Box 2 Folder 1
Asian journals, miscellaneous, 1961.
Box 2 Folder 2
Korean periodicals, 1959, 1963.
Box 2 Folder 3
Office of Strategic Services, Names of Japanese Areas, 1945.
Box 2 Folder 4
Papers on China, 1969-1970.
Box 2 Folder 5
Student grades report [files closed].
Alitto, Guy, "The Conservative as Sage," 1973.
Box 2 Folder 17
Bagish, Martin, "The Kokugaku School: a Link to the Restoration," [after 1968.
Box 2 Folder 18
Chia, Ting-shih, "The Sources of the Chinese Concept of Social Order," 1969.
Box 2 Folder 19
Choi, Kyung Ju, "New U.S. China Diplomacy," 1974.
Box 2 Folder 20
Garay, Ena, "A Comparison between the Korean Decision and the Cuban Missile Crisis," 1978.
Box 2 Folder 21
Heller, Maurice, "National Policy and the Japanese Oil Industry," 1979.
Box 2 Folder 22
Klein, David, "Great Britain and the Chinese Revolutionary Movement," n.d.
Box 2 Folder 23
Mariano, Julie D., "Manila in the Nineteenth Century Historical Background," 1975.
Box 2 Folder 24
Murray, Laura K., "New World Food Crops in China," 1985 (dissertation draft).
Box 2 Folder 25
Nadolski, A. Thomas, "The Domestic Implications of Japanese Nationalism," 1970.
Box 2 Folder 26
Patterson, Jeannette W., "China's Survival in the Boxer Era, " n.d.
Box 2 Folder 27
Patterson, Wayne, "Korean Immigration to Hawaii: Some Causes and Consequences, " 1975.
Box 2 Folder 28
Probasco, Herb A., "Japanese and Filipino Labor Unions and the 1920 Plantation Strike in Hawaii," 1965.
Box 2 Folder 29
Rhee, Hen-dong, "The Kabjin Reform Movement," 1979.
Box 2 Folder 30
Rozanski, Morty, "Reinsch, Crane, Millard and Powell: Press and Politics in China after World War I," [1982].
Box 2 Folder 31
Shao, Hsi-ping, "The Failure of Tuan Ch'i-Jui's Goal of National Unification," 1975.
Box 2 Folder 32
Solomon, "The American Labor Movement and the Far East," n.d.
Box 2 Folder 33
Takemoto, Toru, bibliography, 1977.
Box 2 Folder 34
Van de Walle, Nicolas, "The Partition of Korea, 195-1948," 1979.
Box 2 Folder 35
Weland, James E., "The Dutiful Insubordinates: the 'China Experts' in the Making of Manchukuo," 1974.
Box 2 Folder 36
Wolpert, Dorothy, "Wang Mang, Wang An-Shih, and Economic Reform in China," 1957.
Box 2 Folder 37
Yun, Tay, "ASEAN: Problems of Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia," 1978.
Box 2 Folder 38
Zoll, Amy, "Chinatown: its development in America," 1975.
Box 2 Folder 39
History 2a, 16, 300, 593, 595.
Box 2 Folder 40
History 2A-2B.
Box 2 Folder 41
History 192.
Box 2 Folder 42
History 192b-TV, "History of the Far East," 1962.
Box 2 Folder 43
History 193.
Box 2 Folder 44
History 593.
Box 2 Folder 45
History 692.
Box 2 Folder 46
War or Peace: 1976 Project, 1974-1976.
Box 2 Folder 47
Windows, newsletter, 1985-1986.
Box 2 Folder 48

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