Chong-Sik Lee
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Chong-Sik Lee (born July 30, 1931) (Chinese name: ___) is a Korean American political scientist particularly involved in East Asian studies. He was ____(Scalapino's says "He was one of the founders and first chairman of the National Committee on United States - China Relations.) Together with his co-author Robert A. Scalapino, he won the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs as awarded by the American Political Science Association.
Lee was born to ___ in Anju, North Korea. His father died during the __ War and Lee became a translator at age __ for the __. He _____. Lee escaped to South Korea in ___ and moved to the United States at the age of __. He was one of the first Koreans to attend and graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles. Lee then obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
The Korean Workers’ Party is the first in a new Hoover Institution Press series on the histories of the sixteen ruling communist parties from their inception to the present time. Dr. Chong-Sik Lee, a distinguished Asian scholar, accepted an invitation by the Hoover Institution to write a short history of the Korean Communist movement as part of this new series on world communism. The resultant monograph is an interpretive history drawing on previous data and emphasizing what Dr. Lee felt were the more significant events from previous works on the Korean Communist movement.
The author of numerous books, articles, and book chapters on Korea, Dr. Chong-Sik Lee is eminently qualified to contribute to the Hoover Institution Press series on the Histories of Ruling Communist Parties. Born and raised in Korea, Dr. Lee eared his master’s degree in political science from he University of California at Los Angeles and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He reads and speaks Korean, Japanese, and Chinese and was the winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book published in the United States in 1973 in government, politics, or international affairs. He is the author of The Politics of Korean Nationalism (University of California Press, 1963) and Kim Kyu-sik ui saengae (The Life of Kim Kyu-sik), Seoul: Shingu Munhwasa, 1974. He has contributed to China Quarterly, Asian Survey, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of International Affairs and other periodicals.
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Scalapino was born to Anthony and Beulah Stephenson Scalapino in Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1940, he completed his bachelor's degree at Santa Barbara College (now the University of California, Santa Barbara) where he was student body president in his last year.[2] He married Ida Mae Jessen, the next year on 23 August 1941. Over time they had three children: Leslie, Diane, and Lynne.[1] Scalapino received his master's degree in 1943 and his doctorate in 1948, both from Harvard. During World War II he served in U.S. Naval Intelligence from 1943 to 1946, where he studied Japanese.[2][3] He reached the rank of lieutenant junior grade.
After graduating from Harvard, Scalapino remained there for a year teaching as an instructor, and then went to the University of California at Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1949. He achieved full professor status in 1956, and took emeritus status in 1990. He was chair of Department of Political Science from 1962 to 1965. He founded and was the first director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, from 1978 to 1990. He sat on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was editor of the scholarly journal, Asian Survey, from 1962 to January 1996. Scalapino remained active into his late 80s, serving as a government consultant and testifying at Congressional hearings.
In 2010, The National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, as part of the National Asia Research Program (NARP), created the Scalapino Prize in honor of Scalapino and his contributions to the field of Asian studies.[4] The prize would be awarded to an outstanding scholar in the field of Asian studies every two years. The inaugural Scalapino Prize was awarded to David M. Lampton in June 2010 at the 2010 Asia Policy Assembly.[5]
He died of complications from a respiratory infection on 1 November 2011, at the age of 92.[6]
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