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.