In this exclusive interview with China News Service, Michael Szonyi looked back upon his relationshipwith China and shared his thoughts about China and the world.
On Jan. 6, Zaosong Zheng, a former researcher at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was ordered to leave the United States and return to China after being charged with lying to federal agents about allegedly smuggling cancer research. Zheng agreed to not return to the U.S. for 10 years.
Zhengâs sentencing, however, marks merely the latest development in an ongoing crackdown by the United States government and American universities on âacademic espionage,â or the transmission of academic research by scientists at American universities to foreign governments. Multiple Harvard affiliates, including former Chemistry Department Chair Charles M. Lieber, have been subject to criminal proceedings due to alleged misbehavior.
With a dedication to scholarship and an innate ability to connect with others, Harvard professor emeritus Ezra F. Vogel will be remembered for not just âhow many books he wrote, but how many people he touched,â his son, Steven K. Vogel, said.
Vogel, who served as Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, and was described by his colleagues as a visionary in East Asian studies, died on Dec. 20 at age 90 of complications from cancer surgery.
His work, centered around East Asia, spanned a wide range of disciplines from sociology to political science and, in later years, history. Above all, he exhibited unfailing humility and what Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies research associate Sabina Knight described as a âheart of gold.â
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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