Robert A. Scalapino

American political scientist (1919-2011)

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Lived 1919–2011, aged 92United States

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1919–2011
Aged 92
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Robert Anthony Scalapino was an American political scientist and East Asia specialist. He was a co-founder and inaugural chairman of the National Committee on United States–China Relations. Together with his co-author Chong-Sik Lee, he won the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs from the American Political Science Association. Scalapino's daughters include the artist Diane Sophia and poet Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010).