Stanley Spector (1924-1999): Scholarly Activities

The following lists are no more than a sampling
from Professor Spector's extraordinarily active career,
being based on available records until about 1975.
He remained active for another quarter century.

Books:

Li Hung-chang and the Huai Army. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964.

The Essential Mao. Grosset and Dunlap, Inc., 1975.

Guide to the Memorials of Seven Leading Officials of 19th Century China (1955; co-editor, Chang Chung-li). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955.

Our Oriental Americans (co-editor, Ritter). McGraw-Hill, 1965.

Articles:

“Cooperative Research on Asia,” World Politics, October 1949.

“China’s Hundred Year Quest,” Nanyang Hsueh Pao, Singapore, 1954.

“Students and Politics in Singapore ,” Far Eastern Survey, May, 1956.

“Breaking the China Stalemate,” The Nation, January 28, 1961.

“Overseas Chinese,” (in “Communist China’s First Decade,”), The New Leader, June 1, 1959.

“Social Science and Southeast Asia,” Journal of the South Seas Society, December, 1958.

“The Chinese of Singapore,” in Fried, Morton (ed.) Colloquium on Overseas Chinese, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1959.

“The Dragon: Myths and Realities,” The Nation, March 7, 1966.

“The Coordination of High School and Undergraduate Studies in Non-Western Languages and Cultures,” Educational Record, American Council on Education.

Section 102, International Educational Acto of 1966. Undergraduate Task Force Report. U.S. Office of Education, July 3. 1967.

Reviews:

“Chinese Spirit Medium Cults in Singapore ,” American Anthropologist, December. 1956.

“Political History of China,” Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. XVII, . No.4, 1958.

“Chinese Family and Marriage in Singapore,” “The New Malayan Nation,” “Transformation in Malaya,” Pacific Affairs, 1958

“Rural China: Imperial Control in the 19th Century,” American Political Science Review, Vol. LV, No, 3, September 1961.

“Getting in Touch: Books on China and the Split,” (a Review Article), The Correspondent, No. 32, August, 1964.

“North Korea Today,” American Political Science Review, 1964. . .and many more.

Papers Delivered (representative institutions and organizations): Association of Asian Studies; American Political Science Association; West Coast Branch of the American Political Science Association; Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Peking, Peking, PRC; Midwest Conference on Asian Studies; Universites of Malaya, Singapore, Nanyang, Illinois. Washington, Southern Illinois. Missouri, Toronto, Oregon State; Bradley University; Columbia University; Fontbonne College; St, Louis University; University of Memphis; University of Colorado, America Anthropological Association; Midwest Sociological Society; Central States Modern Language Association; 16me Congres des Etudiantes Chinoises, Bordeaux, France; Princeton University Conference on Foreign Language and Area Studies in the United States.

Radio and Television Lectures and Series:

Radio Malaya, Schools Series.

KETV, St. Louis, “Armchair Ambassador.”

KETV, St. Louis, “Southeast Asia ,” (A Series).

Columbia University Series on International Affairs: China, 1962.

CBS: (KMOX, St. Louis). Series on President Nixon's visit to China.

“Welcome to People’s China:” Sixty-minute color film made and produced by Stanley Spector, with sound, covering his visit to the People's Republic of China in 1973.

University Teaching Experience:

City College of New York. Instructor in History, Summer 1946.

University of Washington, Seattle. Instructor in Far Eastern History, 1951-53.

University of California, Los Angeles. Lecturer in History, 1953.

Chung Cheng Chung Hsueh, Singapore. Lecturer in History, Post-Certificate Class.

University of Washington, Seattle. Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Affairs, 1955).

Washington University in St. Louis. Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, from 1955.

Columbia University, New York: Visiting Professor of Chinese and Japanese History, 1962.

University of Singapore, Singapora: Visiting Professor, Summers 1967, 1968, 1969).

IKIP University, Bandung, Indonesia: Visiting Professor. Summer 1969.

Nanyang University. Singapore Visiting Professor. Summers 1972, 1973.

Fellowships and Scholarships:

Chinese National Government Cultural Scholarship, 1946-1948.

University of Washington Fellow (1947-1950).

Social Science Research Council Graduate Training Fellow (London, 1950-1951).

Ford Foundation. Overseas Research and Training Fellow, (South East Asia: Chinese), 1953-1955.

Social Science Research Council, Committee on Comparative Politics (Singapore), 1958-1959.

Social Science Research Council, Toyo Bunko. Japan, 1966-1967.