Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr. (December 12, 1937–September 14, 2006) was a prominent American scholar of Chinese history.
Wakeman was born in Kansas City, Kansas. His father was the novelist Frederic Wakeman, Sr. who often moved the family to live abroad in places like Bermuda, France, and Cuba. He graduated from Harvard University in 1959, where he majored in European history and literature. After Harvard, he went on to earn master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge and at the Institut d’études politiques in Paris. While studying at the Institut d’études politiques, he switched to Chinese studies. He also studied as a graduate student in Taiwan. In 1962 he published a novel, Seventeen Royal Palms Drive, under the name “Evans Wakeman.” Wakeman, studying under Professor Joseph Levenson, received a Ph.D. in Far Eastern history at University of California, Berkeley in 1965.
Books by: Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr.
Fall of Imperial China
Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861
Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service
Lost Novel
In the Wikipedia entry it mentions that he wrote a book called “Seventeen Royal Palms Drive”. Checked Bookfinder and Worldcat. Not a single copy shows up. As a librarian it seems weird to me when you look for a book and no copies show up anywhere. No copies extant.