Adieu 'Mr China', your record lives on
Dec 23, 2020, 09:06
Ezra Feivel Vogel, former director of Harvard University's John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies and a famous US scholar on Chinese and Japanese studies, passed away on Sunday at the age of 90.
Cui Tiankai, China's ambassador to the United States, tweeted his condolences, praising Vogel as an outstanding scholar on China and an old friend of the Chinese people who devoted his life to enhancing mutual understanding between the Chinese and US peoples and making important contributions to friendship between the two peoples and countries.
Vogel was one of the few Western scholars who had knowledge of Chinese and Japanese histories. He was not a linear historical narrator, instead he injected sociological perspective into his studies, endowing it with more realistic and comparative significance.