Selig s harrison biography

Selig Seidenman Harrison was a scholar and journalist, who specialized in South Asia and East Asia.

Selig Seidenman Harrison (March 19, 1927 – December 30, 2016) was a scholar and journalist, who specialized in South Asia and East Asia.

"Selig Seidenman Harrison (born March 19, 1927 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania) is a scholar, journalist, and author who specializes in South Asia and East Asia.

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Harrison, Selig S.

Biography

"Selig Seidenman Harrison (born March 19, 1927 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania) is a scholar, reporter, and author who specializes in South Asia and East Asia. He is the Director of the Asia Program and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has written five books on Asian affairs and U.S. relations with Asia. " From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selig_S._Harrison.

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Identifier: APAC-0008

Scope and Contents The collection of Selig Harrison includes writings, correspondence, notes, and other material collected and created by the author and journalist who has written extensively about Asia, including Afghanistan, before, during, and after the Soviet invasion. Much of the material in this collection has bee

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Selig Harrison

Love, Secrets, and Second Chances—February’s Must-Read Books Await!

Selig S. Harrison is a former "Washington Post" Bureau Chief in Northeast Asia and the author of five books about the continent. He served as Senior Fellow and Director of Asian Studies at the Brookings Institution and, for twenty-two years, as a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has visited North Korea seven times and met the late President Kim Il Sung twice. He played a key role in setting the scen for the 1994 U.S. nuclear freeze agreement with Pyongyang.

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Korean Endgame, August 2003
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Selig S. Harrison, NF ’55 and leading Asian correspondent for The Washington Post, dies at 89

January 11, 2017

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Selig S. Harrison, a 1955 Nieman Fellow who covered Asia for The Washington Post and later became a preeminent authority on the region, died in Camden, Maine on December 30 due to complications from a blood disorder. He was 89.

Known as one of the leading foreign correspondents in Asia during the 1960s, Harrison was hired by the Post as bureau chief in New Delhi in 1962, and later served as the paper’s bureau chief in Tokyo. He became an important liaison with North Korea during his time with the Post, traveling to the country for the first time in 1972. Granted repeat interviews with Kim Il Sung, the father of Kim Jong Il, Harrison was a rare guest of the reclusive regime, returning to the country ten times over the next four decades.

Born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania in 1927, Harrison began his career in journalism during World War II, e