193 1 graduated from Oberlin College. His first job was at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. There, he will publish the Study of Plant Migration by the late berthold laufer and study the monograph on slavery in the Han Dynasty.
65438-0933 studied at Columbia University and studied Chinese at Beijing Chinese School.
194 1 received his doctorate from Columbia university, majoring in the proletarian movement in China.
65438-0947 taught at Columbia University, which helped to make postgraduate courses one of the leading projects in China and guided many influential graduate students. His research focuses on China during the Republic of China, especially on Sun Yat-sen's career and the rise of the Kuomintang. He also organized the core figures of the oral history project in Colombia. Won the Fulbright Act Scholarship.
After the founding of New China, a number of important members of the Kuomintang lived in new york.
From 1956 to 12, Professor C. Martin Wilbur thought that the memories of these important people in the Republic of China would be a precious historical memory. Why not preserve them in the form of oral history? So I went to New Haven to visit Professor He Lian, a colleague of the Institute of East Asian Studies, and discussed the feasibility of developing this group of oral history thoughts, which was even thoughtful. Subsequently, Webster's Dictionary and He Lian began to make specific plans for this batch of oral history research in China, and calculated the required expenses. This plan requires that the interviewees must be famous figures in China's modern history, and tend to study and publish in the form of academic autobiography [oral history of Columbia University is mainly divided into two categories: collective project memoirs and personal biographical memoirs]. ], in order to contribute to the study of the history of the Republic of China. However, for any researcher who is eager to carry out oral history, the problem of funding is always a headache (making an hour's tape costs about 100-500 dollars). )。
Fortunately, Webster was elected as the director of the East Asian Institute of Columbia University in 1957, which gave him the opportunity to promote this research. On the grounds of promoting the development of East Asian Institute, he wrote an application to Schuyler Wallace, director of the international affairs department of Columbia University, suggesting that the Ford Foundation of the university should allocate funds for China's oral history research project.
1958, Columbia university won the first Ford foundation fund 15000, and the oral history project in China was started.
1958 February, China oral history project was officially launched. Columbia University invited Kong Xiangxi and Hu Shi, two important officials of the Kuomintang government, in the name of the school. They were received by Xia Lianyin and Tang Degang respectively. The China Oral History Research Project of Columbia University was officially launched.
196 1 year, with the support of Ford Foundation, the liaison committee between American academic institutions and the Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica was established.
He retired on 1967, and all the students sent him to co-write with Joshua A. vogel and William T. Rowe. China in Change: China in Perspective: Collected Works of Professor Martin Wilbur's Retirement Commemoration, published by Westway Publishing House, 1979, ISBN 0-89158-091-3.
1989 donated his reading notes and manuscripts to the Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica.
1997 died of leukemia at his home in Haverford, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, at the age of 89.