Arthur Waldron

Born on 13 December, 1948

Arthur Waldron is the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Chinese and Asian history and international relations. He was educated at Harvard, where he received his A.B. summa cum laude in 1971, and his Ph.D ten years later. He has studied in England, France, the former Soviet Union, Taiwan and Japan. For a decade he worked part time guiding tours all over China and he was evacuated from China to Japan just after the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. He has written, edited, or contributed chapters to more than twenty books, several of which have been translated into Chinese, one into Japanese, and one into Italian. He is also the vice president of the non-profit research group the International Assessment and Strategy Center in Arlington, VA. Before moving to Penn he taught at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, and the US Naval War College. He has visited more than fifty countries. He is married with two children and lives in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.