Tao WenzhaoResearcher, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Though Professor Ezra Vogel has passed away, he will always be remembered and venerated in Chinese academic circles. He not only made fruitful academic achievements in China and Japan studies, to which few foreign scholars can compare, but he also carried forward the tradition of “study for application” adopted by Professor John King Fairbank, former director and founder of the Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asian Research (now Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies). He promoted the development of U.S. relations with China and Japan, and won international acclaim and respect in so doing.
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By ZHAO XU in New York | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-01-16 04:18 Share CLOSE Ezra Vogel (center) with Michael Szonyi (left) and another China scholar, Rod MacFarquhark, at a symposium held on the 60th anniversary of the Fairbank Center in October 2016. ALL PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Colleagues, family members recall intrepid days of Ezra Vogel, renowned author and scholar on East Asia who stayed active up to his death at age 90. Zhao Xu reports from New York.
David Vogel, adjunct lecturer of psychology at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, always remembers the way his father looked longingly toward the Chinese mainland, while the two were on the Hong Kong side of the divide in the mid-1960s.
Ezra Vogel, Harvard scholar who bridged U.S. and East Asia, dies at 90 Harrison Smith Ezra F. Vogel, a Harvard professor who served as a bridge between East Asia and the United States, examining the rise of two superpowers Japan and China in books that drew wide acclaim on both sides of the Pacific, died Dec. 20 at a hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He was 90. The cause was complications from colon cancer surgery, said his son Steven K. Vogel, a political scientist and Japan scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. Though trained as a sociologist, Dr. Vogel drew on fields including history, psychology and anthropology, interviewing families, executives and top political officials in Japan and China. After decades in which China was largely closed off to the West, he was part of the first generation of American scholars to travel across the country, studying its society in the years after Mao Zedong’s death in 1976. In a tribute, the Foreign
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