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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 2:01 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Professor Rhoads Murphey, 1921-2012


> H-ASIA
> January 31, 2013
>
> Professor Rhoads Murphey, 1921-2012
> *********************************************************************
> Ed. note: Thanks to Professor Stapleton for sending along the news of
> Rhoads Murphey's passing. He was a good friend to many of us, and
> is best remembered for his work at Michigan and for the Association
> for Asian Studies. I should note, however, that he also played a role
> in the early years of the South Asia program at Washington. I do hope
> that we can publish a full obituary by someone more closely associated
> with Rhoads and his work in the near future. FFC
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> From: Kristin E Stapleton <kstaple@buffalo.edu>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I just learned that my undergraduate adviser Rhoads Murphey, emeritus
> professor at the University of Michigan, passed away on December 20,
> 2012, four days after his wife Eleanor died. I hadn't seen Rhoads in
> about a dozen years, but had been working with him to update his East
> Asia and Asia history surveys over the past few years. In 2004, the
> Association for Asian Studies published a memoir of his experiences
> in China, including as an ambulance driver in the early 1940s in
> Sichuan (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/murphey.html).
> He is most well known for his work on the history of Shanghai and
> treaty ports in general, as well as his monograph comparing the
> Chinese and Indian experiences of European colonialism (The
> Outsiders, published by the University of Michigan Press in 1977). He
> served as the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1987.
>
> I hope this brief note will encourage someone to post a fuller
> biography. My favorite memories of Rhoads included encountering him
> by chance in UM's Angell Hall after having had a meeting with one of
> my other advisers who had told me I should plan right then to devote
> my life to promoting US-China trade and not dither about undecided
> while others forged ahead. Rhoads noticed I was reeling from the
> shock of this and, having gotten me to explain what happened, laughed
> and said that people changed their careers all the time -- there was
> no urgent need to settle on anything as an undergraduate. And then a
> decade or so later when I wrote very apologetically to ask for one
> more letter of recommendation, he wrote back that I should not
> apologize -- he was still getting John Fairbank to write letters for
> him.
>
> Rest in peace, Rhoads and Eleanor!
>
> Kristin
> =================
> Kristin Stapleton
> University at Buffalo, SUNY
> kstaple@buffalo.edu
>
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