- Franz Schurmann
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birth_date = 1924
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occupation = Historian, Author
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employer = Pacific News Service
height =
weight =Franz Schurmann is a historian, and sociologist. He taught at the
University of California, Berkeley in the Departments of Sociology and History, for more than thirty years. He was the head of the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley.Among his books are:
*"Ideology and Organization in CommunistChina "
*"The Logic of World Power: An Inquiry into the Origins, Currents, and Contradictions of World Politics".
*"Communist China: revolutionary reconstruction and international confrontation 1949 to the present". 1968. (with Orville Schell)
*"The foreign politics of Richard Nixon : the grand design", Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1987.He was a co-founder of the
Pacific News Service in 1969 with Orville Schell, a noted author, journalist and Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley.Schurmann serves as editor and commentator, and writes a weekly "Predictions" column for the Pacific News Service.
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