Liem, Channing, 1909-1996

Channing Liem was born in Whangai Province, North Korea, on Oct. 30, 1909. He came to the United States in 1930 where he attended Lafayette College (1930-1934), Princeton (1940-1945), and Yale (1954-1955). He served as Consultant on Far Eastern Affairs to the U.S. Office of Censorship (1942-1945) and assisted in the Korean independence movement. He also served as Permanent Observer for Korea to the United Nations, 1960-1961, and was a professor of political science and Asian studies at Chatham College and SUNY-New Paltz. He died in Berkeley, Calif. in 1996.

From the description of Photographs from the Channing and Popai Liem papers [graphic]. ca. 1930-ca. 1995. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 745927871

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