Francis Hilary Conroy was born in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1919. He received his B.S. from the Northwestern University in 1941, his AM in 1942 and Ph. D. in 1949 both from the University of California. He was Lecturer of Far Eastern history at the University of California for two years before he was appointed to the history faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. He was promoted to full Professor in 1965. His publications include The Japanese frontier in Hawaii, 1868-1898 (1953), The Japanese seizure of Korea, 1868-1910: a study of realism and idealism in international relations (1960), China and Japan : search for balance since World War I (co-edited with Alvin D. Coox, 1978), and America views China : American images of China then and now (co- edited with Jonathan Goldstein and Jerry Israel, 1991). Conroy retired in 1990 and was elected Professor Emeritus of Penn.
From the description of Papers, 1949-1989. (University of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 145429758
