One generation’s wisdom is the next generation’s folly.
Do we have any idea where we are and where we’re going? We do not. No one as 2020 dawned could have foreseen where we are as 2021 dawns. Tomorrow is no less obscure, next year more so, the next generation hopelessly so. Bring the best minds to bear on the problems that beset us and we’ll hear great thoughts, credits to the thinking capacity of our species and yet no less likely, for all the knowledge and intelligence that went into them, to be mocked by time. How many of our best thoughts today will seem childish nonsense to our near (never mind distant) descendants?
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.
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On December 20, 2020, renowned East Asia scholar and Harvard University professor Ezra Vogel died at age 90. In a
With these words [on the rapid increase in economic livelihood, education. and longevity since 1989] Vogel indicates that he basically accepts an argument that the Communist Party’s Propaganda Department has been making for the past twenty years: that “stability” and economic growth show that the repression at Tiananmen was justified in the long run. When foreign dignitaries or journalists have asked about the massacre, the response of Party leaders has been consistent: if Deng Xiaoping had not taken “resolute” (i.e.,
12 January 2021
Author: Richard Dyck, Tokyo
Ezra Vogel, among the world’s foremost scholars of Asian studies, died on 20 December of complications during an operation. Ezra was a robust 90 years old, actively corresponding with friends and colleagues until the day of his death. This sudden, unanticipated loss of a scholar and close friend was a sad end to a challenging year.
There was nothing in Ezra’s early life to portend his eventual rise to prominence as an Asian scholar. He grew up in Delaware, Ohio a small town 20 miles from the state capital of Columbus. His parents, Joe and Edith Vogel, were immigrants from Eastern Europe, and the Vogels were among the few Jewish families in this Protestant Midwestern town. His father owned a clothing store in town, where Ezra helped out after school. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University, where he majored in sociology as an undergraduate. After two years in the army, he entered graduate school at Harvard, where he studied in the Soci
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