Dec. 12, 1937, Wakeman left the American heartland when but a few months old, and his youthful schooling was distinctly international. His father, Frederic Evans Wakeman Sr., was a successful novelist who led his family on a peripatetic life so that the young Frederic attended school in New York City, Cuernavaca, Bermuda, Santa Barbara, Havana, France and Ft. Lauderdale. Adjusting easily to instruction in Spanish and French, Wakeman picked up smatterings of Italian and Portuguese during summer vacations and learned some Latin at his British grammar school in Bermuda.

　　In 1955, Wakeman entered Harvard College, where he majored in European history and literature, adding German and Russian to his repertoire, and graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He turned to Chinese studies while studying at the Institut d'etudes politiques in Paris, then earned his Ph.D. in Far Eastern history at UC Berkeley in 1965, mastering Chinese and Japanese in the process. Along the way, in 1962 he published a novel, "Seventeen Royal Palms Drive," under the name of Evans Wakeman.

　　Wakeman is survived by his wife, He Lea Wakeman, of Lake Oswego, Ore.; three children, Frederic Wakeman III of London, England, Matthew Wakeman of Kensington, Calif., and Sarah Wakeman of Providence, Rhode Island; two grandchildren; and his sister, Susan Farquhar of Blacksburg, Va.

　　A memorial service will be held on the UC Berkeley campus in early November.

　　部分著作（Selected Publications）

　　Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965).

　　The Fall of Imperial China (New York: Free Press, 1975).

　　History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-tung's Thought (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977).

　　The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).

　　Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

　　Shanghai Badlands: Political Terrorism and Urban Crime in Wartime Shanghai (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

　　Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).
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