1896 September 6 | Born, Woltersdorf, Germany |
1912 | Joined the German youth movement Wandervogel |
1917 | Drafted, German Army Signal Corps |
1918 | Joined the Unabhangige Sozialdemokratische Partei |
1920-1921 | Teacher, Volkshochschule Schloss Tinz, Tinz, Germany |
1920 | Joined the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands |
1921 | Married Rose Schlesinger
Author, Rote Soldaten: Politische Tragodie in 5 Akten |
1922 | Author,
Der Mann, der eine Idee hat Die Mutter, Der Fluchtling Vom Urkommunismus bis zur proletarischen Revolution Die Wissenschaft der burgerlichen Gesellschaft: Eine marxistische Untersuchung |
1923 | Author, Wer ist der Dummste? |
1924 | Author,
Geschichte der burgerlichen Gesellschaft: Von ihren Anfangen bis zur Schwelle der grossen Revolution Der Wolkenkratzer: Amerikanischer Sketch |
1924-1925 | Author, Die spannenden Abenteuer des 12 jahrigen Freiheitshelden Antonio Mascaro im Bauernaufstand zu Mallorka |
1925 | Cultural editor, Die Rote Fahne |
1925-1933 | Research associate, Institut fur Sozialforschung, Universitat Frankfurt, Germany |
1926 | Author, Das erwachende China: Ein Abriss der Geschichte der gegenwartigen Probleme Chinas |
1928 | Ph.D. in economics, Universitat Frankfurt |
1931 | Author, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Chinas: Versuch der wissenschaftlichen Analyse einer grossen asiatischen Agrargesellschaft |
1933 | Married Olga Joffe
Arrested; spent nine months in prison and in three concentration camps |
1934 | Left Germany for England and then the United States |
1934-1939 | Research associate, International Institute of Social Research, associated with and located on the campus ofColumbia University, New York City (formerly the Institutfur Sozialforschung) |
1935-1937 | Researcher in China |
1936 | Author (under the pseudonym Klaus Hinrichs), Staatliches Konzentrationslager VII |
1939 | Joined the Wider Quaker Fellowship
Broke with the Communist movement after the Nazi-Soviet Pact |
1939-1968 | Founder and director, Chinese History Project, Columbia University, New York City (co-sponsored by the Institute of Pacific Relations and the International Institute of Social Research, and after 1947, by the University of Washington and Columbia University) |
1940 | Married Esther S. Goldfrank |
1941 | Naturalized American citizen |
1943-1944 | Lecturer in Chinese, Columbia University, New York City |
1944-1945 | Associate Professor in International Studies, Columbia University, New York City |
1945-1946 | Associate Professor in the University Seminars, Columbia University, New York City |
1947-1949 | Acting professor of Chinese History, University of Washington, Seattle |
1949 | Author (with Feng Chia-sheng), History of Chinese Society: Liao (907-1125) |
1949 | Joined the American Committee for Cultural Freedom |
1949-1966 | Professor of Chinese History, University of Washington, Seattle |
1950 | Subpoenaed to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in executive session |
1951 | Subpoenaed to appear before the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee in open session |
1957 | Author,
Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power
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1960 | Author, From Marx to Mao: A Viewer's Guide |
1966-1988 | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle |
1977 | Author, Beitrage zur marxistischen Asthetik |
1988 May 25 | Died, New York City |
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