William Woodville Rockhill
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1854 – 1914
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Who was William Woodville Rockhill?
William Woodville Rockhill was a United States diplomat, best known as the author of the U.S.'s Open Door Policy for China and as the first American to learn to speak Tibetan and therefore as the father of modern U.S. Tibetan Studies.
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- Born
- May 1, 1854
Philadelphia - Also known as
- W. Rockhill
- Education
- Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
- Died
- Dec 8, 1914
Honolulu
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on July 23, 2013
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