From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:18 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker (1948-2012)
> H-ASIA
> December 19, 2012
>
> Nancy Bernkopf Tucker (July 12, 1948-December 1, 2012)
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> From: Frank Joseph Shulman <fshulman@umd.edu>
>
> Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, a distinguished authority on the modern
> history of U.S. diplomatic relations with China, Taiwan and Hong Kong,
> a professor of history at Georgetown University and its School of
> Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., and the wife of China scholar
> Warren I. Cohen, died at her home in Potomac, Maryland, on Saturday,
> December 1st. Born in New York City on July 12, 1948, she was the
> author of several monographs and edited volumes--among them, _Patterns
> in the Dust: Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition
> Controversy, 1949-1950_ (Columbia University Press, 1983); _Taiwan,
> Hong Kong and the United States, 1945-1992: Uncertain Friendships_
> (Twayne Publishers, 1994); _China Confidential: American Diplomats and
> Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996_ (Columbia University Press, 2001);
> _Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with
> China_ (Harvard University Press, 2009); and _The China Threat:
> Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s_ (Columbia University
> Press, 2012)--as well as a substantial number of articles and essays
> in such journals as the _American Historical Review_, _Foreign
> Affairs_, _Journal of American History_, and _Political Science
> Quarterly_ and in various edited volumes.
>
> According to a profile that was posted by Georgetown University until
> earlier this month, Tucker "received a National Intelligence Medal of
> Achievement in 2007 for distinguished meritorious service as the first
> Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analytic Integrity
> and Standards and Analytic Ombudsman in the Office of the Director of
> National Intelligence. In 1986-87, she served in the Office of Chinese
> Affairs in the Department of State and at the U.S. Embassy in
> Beijing. Prior to that she taught at Colgate University and New York
> University. She was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the
> Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio Study Center), the Woodrow Wilson
> International Center for Scholars, the United States Institute of
> Peace, Harvard University, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
> as well as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow
> and recipient of generous research support from the Smith Richardson
> Foundation. She was also a member of the U.S. Department of State
> Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation and the
> boards of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and the National
> Committee on US-China Relations (New York) as well as a member of the
> Council on Foreign Relations. Her Ph.D. was from Columbia University."
> Tucker was awarded the Myrna R. Bernath Book Prize in 1996 from the
> Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for her book
> _Uncertain Friendships_. And on November 30th, the Woodrow Wilson
> International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., announced that
> it had established in her honor an annual lecture series on U.S.-East
> Asian relations that would begin in 2013.
>
> A full-length obituary by Bart Barnes entitled "Nancy Bernkopf
> Tucker, 64: Georgetown Professor Was Expert on Relations with China"
> appeared in The Washington Post on December 18, 2012 (page B5) and is
> currently available on the Internet.
>
> Frank Joseph Shulman
> Bibliographer, Editor and Consultant for Reference Publications in Asian
> Studies
> College Park, Maryland
> E-mail: fshulman@umd.edu
> December 19, 2012
>
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