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John J. Stephan

Born: 1941 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Born in Chicago. During 1941-1951 and in 1953, Stephan spent summers at Hazelwood, the Walgreen estate in Dixon, Lee County. Stephan is the grandson of Charles R. Walgreen (1873-1939) and Myrtle Norton Walgreen (1879-1971).

Biography: John J. Stephan is the son of Illinois-born artist John Walter Stephan (1906-1995) and Illinois-born poet, novelist, editor Ruth Stephan [nee Ruth Walgreen] (1910-1974). He was raised in New York, Rome [Italy], Tucson, and Greenwich [Connecticut]. He attended Harvard (B.A. 1963, M.A. 1964) and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (PhD 1969). From 1970 until 2001, he taught Japanese and Russian history at University of Hawaii, with visiting appointments at Stanford, Oxford, Tufts, Waseda University [Tokyo], and the University of Hokkaido. His books have been translated into Russian, Chinese, and Japanese. He is currently Professor Emeritus of History and lives in Honolulu.


Awards:
  • -- 1971, Outstanding Academic Book, America Library Association [Sakhalin]
  • -- 1973, Japan Culture Translation Prize [Sakhalin]
  • -- 1996, Kenneth W. Baldwin Prize, Phi Alpha Theta International Honor Society in History [The Russian Far East]

Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: stephan@hawaii.edu
John J. Stephan on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-j-stephan/95/6ab/263
John J. Stephan on Zoominfo : http://www.zoominfo.com/p/John-Stephan/11783657
Website: http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/departments/russian/?stephan
John J. Stephan on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=john++j.++stephan


Selected Titles

Hawaii under the rising sun :
ISBN: 0824825500 OCLC: 52230530

University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu : 2002.

Hawaii under the rising sun :
ISBN: 082480872X OCLC: 45733812

University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu : ©1984.

  Sakhalin: a history,
ISBN: 0198215509 OCLC: 201823

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971.

Based on Russian, Japanese and Chinese sources, it is the first comprehensive history of Sakhalin.

Soviet-American horizons on the Pacific /
ISBN: 0824810201 OCLC: 12420502

University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu : ©1986.

The Kuril Islands :
ISBN: 0198215630 OCLC: 1341826

Clarendon Press, Oxford : 1974.

A comprehensive study based on Russian, Japanese, British and American sources.

The Russian Far East :
ISBN: 0804723117 OCLC: 29359290

Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif. : 1994.

Wedged between China, Korea, Japan, and the United States, the Russian Far East has for centuries been a meeting ground for Eurasian and American peoples and cultures. Conventionally regarded as a perimeter, it is in fact a collage of overlapping borderlands with a distinct historical identity. Based on a quarter-century of research by a leading authority on the area, this is a monumental survey of Pacific Siberia from prehistoric times to the present.

The Russian fascists :
ISBN: 0060140992 OCLC: 3447623

Harper & Row, New York : ©1978.

 

 

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