{{Short description|American political scientist (1919–2011)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Robert A. Scalapino | image = RobertScalapino.png | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1919|10|19}} | birth_place = Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2011|11|01|1919|10|19}} | alma_mater = Harvard University | thesis_title = An Analysis of Political Party Failure in Japan | thesis_url = http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid={{pipe}}library/m/aleph{{pipe}}003922623 | thesis_year = 1948 | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = Richard Baum }} '''Robert Anthony Scalapino''' (October 19, 1919 – November 1, 2011) was an American political scientist and East Asia specialist. He was a co-founder and inaugural chairman of the National Committee on United States–China Relations. Together with his co-author Chong-Sik Lee, he won the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs from the American Political Science Association. Scalapino's daughters include the artist Diane Sophia and poet Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010).<ref name="epc.buffalo">{{Cite web |title=Obituary notice: Leslie Scalapino 1944-2010 |publisher=Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) |url=http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/scalapino/obit.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602125313/http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/scalapino/obit.html |archivedate=2 June 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>
==Early life and education== 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.<ref name="UC-Archives">{{Cite magazine|title=The US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project: Robert Scalapino Honored |magazine=The Interpreter |publisher=University of Colorado |number=141 |date=1 November 2009 |pages=3–4|url=http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/collections/jlsp/interpreter141.doc |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610155840/http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/collections/jlsp/interpreter141.doc |archivedate=10 June 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> He married Ida Mae Jessen, the next year on August 23, 1941. Rhey had three children: Leslie, Diane, and Lynne.<ref name="epc.buffalo"/> Scalapino received his master's degree in 1943 and his doctorate in 1948, both from Harvard University. During World War II he served in U.S. Naval Intelligence from 1943 to 1946, where he studied Japanese.<ref name="UC-Archives"/><ref>"Forgotten WWII Patriots, Instrumental in Pacific Victory, to be Honored by U.S. Navy" ''AScribe Newswire'' 22 October 2002, accessed 15 February 2010 via Lexis/Nexis subscription service</ref> He reached the rank of lieutenant junior grade.{{citation needed|date=June 2025}}
==Career== After graduating from Harvard University, Scalapino remained there for a year teaching as an instructor, and then went to the University of California, 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2025}}
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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NBR and Wilson Center Partner to Honor Scalapino |date=2 November 2009 |publisher=The National Bureau of Asian Research |url=http://www.nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=24 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608222748/http://www.nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=24 |archivedate=8 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>Dr. David M. Lampton Awarded the Inaugural Scalapino Prize http://www.nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=91</ref>
He died of complications from a respiratory infection on November 1, 2011, at the age of 92.<ref>In Memoriam Robert Scalapino http://ieas.berkeley.edu/news/scalapino_in_memoriam.html</ref>
==Awards== *1973 with Chong-Sik Lee, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for their book ''Communism in Korea''<ref>American Political Science Association [http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/Woodrow%20Wilson%20Foundation%20Award.pdf "Woodrow Wilson Foundation Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518064714/http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/Woodrow |date=18 May 2015 }}</ref> *1976 honorary LL.D., Academia Sinica (Taiwan) *1983 honorary D.P.S., Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Korea) *1989 honorary D.P.S., Kyung Hee University (Korea) *1988 Order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan) *1990 Presidential Order (Korea) *1990 Berkeley Citation, University of California at Berkeley
==Selected publications== Scalapino published 540 articles and 39 books or monographs on Asian politics and United States–Asian policy,<ref>[http://www.tafjapan.org/english/forums/pdf/20041214profile.pdf "Symposium: Fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of The Asia Foyndation"], p. 3, The Asia Foundation, 14 December 2004, accessed 17 February 2010.</ref> which include: *1953 ''Democracy and the Party Movement in Pre-War Japan''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. (1953) ''Democracy and the Party Movement in Pre-War Japan: the failure of the first attempt'' University of California Press, Berkeley, California, {{OCLC|152565297}}</ref> *1961 with George T. Yu ''The Chinese Anarchist Movement''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. and Yu, George T. (1961) ''The Chinese Anarchist Movement'' Institute of International Studies, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, {{OCLC|3803036}}</ref> *1962 with Junnosuke Masumi ''Parties and Politics in Contemporary Japan''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. and Junnosuke Masumi, Junnosuke (1962) ''Parties and Politics in Contemporary Japan'' University of California, Berkeley, California, {{OCLC|502721}}</ref> *1967 ''The Japanese Communist Movement, 1920-1966''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. (1967) ''The Japanese Communist Movement, 1920-1966'' University of California Press, Berkeley, California, {{OCLC|369027}}</ref> *1972 with Chong-Sik Lee ''Communism in Korea''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. and Lee, Chong-Sik (1972) ''Communism in Korea'' University of California Press, Berkeley, California, {{ISBN|0-520-02080-4}}</ref> *1972 ''Elites in the People's Republic of China''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A., ed. (1972) ''Elites in the People's Republic of China,'' University of Washington Press, Seattle & London, {{ISBN|0-295-95230-X}}</ref> *1975 ''Asia and the Road Ahead''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. (1975) ''Asia and the Road Ahead: issues for the major powers'' University of California Press, Berkeley, California, {{ISBN|0-520-03066-4}}</ref> *1979 ''The United States and Korea: Looking Ahead''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. (1979) ''The United States and Korea: Looking Ahead'' Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, by Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, California, {{ISBN|0-8039-1374-5}}</ref> *1983 ''The Early Japanese Labor Movement''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. (1983) ''The Early Japanese Labor Movement: labor and politics in a developing society'' Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California, {{ISBN|0-912966-65-3}}</ref> *1989 ''The Politics of Development: Perspectives on Twentieth Century Asia''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. (1989) ''The Politics of Development: Perspectives on Twentieth Century Asia'' Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, {{ISBN|0-674-68757-4}}</ref> *1992 ''The Last Leninists: The Uncertain Future of Asia's Communist States''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. (1992) ''The Last Leninists: The Uncertain Future of Asia's Communist States'' Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, {{ISBN|0-89206-191-X}}</ref> *1997 ''North Korea at a Crossroads''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. (1997) ''North Korea at a Crossroads'' Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, {{ISBN|0-8179-5782-0}}</ref> *2008 ''From Leavenworth to Lhasa: living in a revolutionary era''<ref>Scalapino, Robert A. (2008) ''From Leavenworth to Lhasa: living in a revolutionary era'' Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California, {{ISBN|1-55729-092-X}}</ref>
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==Further reading== *Scalapino, Robert A. (2008) ''From Leavenworth to Lhasa: living in a revolutionary era'' Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California, {{ISBN|1-55729-092-X}}
==External links== * [http://www.icasinc.org/bios/scalapin.html "Robert A. Scalapino biographic sketch"] Institute for Corean-American Studies (ICAS) * [http://www.vpa-inc.org/conference/scalapino.php "Institute of East Asian Studies - University of California - Robert A. Scalapino"] Vietnamese Professionals of America, VPA Inc. * [http://purl.lib.ua.edu/82831 Speech by Robert Scalapino on 17 March 1967, on emerging nations.] Audio recording from [http://purl.lib.ua.edu/18388 The University of Alabama's Emphasis Symposium on Contemporary Issues]
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