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United States Foreign Service Officer and Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Penn State University
: A former United States Foreign Service officer and is currently Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Penn State University. His area of expertise is East Asia; while in the Foreign Service, he was stationed in Taiwan (the Republic of China), the Republic of (South) Vietnam, and Washington, D.C.. After leaving the State Department in 1965, he received his PhD degree in East Asian studies at Georgetown University. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“Until a little over a decade ago, there were few basic studies in Western languages of the origins and development of the Vietnamese Communist movement. It retrospect, it is clear that this lamentable ignorance was in no small measure responsible for the tragic involvement of the United States in the civil struggle in that country.”
Source: "The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam," by William J. Duiker, Second Edition, Pennsylvania State University, Westview Press, 1981. Acknowledgments, Page xiii.
"The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam," by William J. Duiker, Second Edition, Pennsylvania State University, Westview Press, 1981.
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