 He cited the major achievements of his career as the foundation of what was to become the Association for Asian Studies and the Journal of Asian Studies, and secondly the growth of the oriental studies at the University of Arizona.He cited as his third most important achievement the publication of "Anglo-Chinese Relations During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’’ (a compacted version of his M.A.thesis), "The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese Relations 1750–1800" (based in part on his doctoral thesis, 1936), sections written for "The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature" (1961), the coauthoring of Volume 4 of the UNESCO "History of Mankind