20th local time, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University announced on Twitter that Ezra F. Vogel, a famous scholar on Sino-American issues and the former director of the Research Center, has passed away at the age of 90.
The tweet wrote that Fu Gaoyi has supported the research center for a long time, is a wise scholar and an outstanding friend, and will miss him deeply.
Fu Gaoyi graduated from Wesley University in Ohio in 1950, received a PhD in sociology from Harvard University in 1958, and became a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard from 1963 to 1964, studying Chinese and history.
He has been observing and writing about China issues for decades, and has a deep understanding of China’s political, public opinion, and socio-economic conditions. He is considered the only scholar in the United States who is proficient in both China and Japan.
Authors of “Deng Xiaoping Times”, “Japan No. 1”, “Japan’s Middle Class”, “Regrouping and Rebuilding the United States Case Analysis” and other works.
