Ezra Vogel
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Ezra Vogel in National Library of China, Beijing
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Ezra Feivel Vogel 11 July 1930 Delaware, Ohio, United States |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (Ph.D.) Ohio Wesleyan University |
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Harvard University Yale University |
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East Asian history |
Ezra Feivel Vogel (Chinese: 傅高義; pinyin: Fù Gāoyì; born July 11, 1930) is a Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University and has written on Japan, China, and Asia generally.
He was born to a Jewish family in 1930 in Delaware, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1950 and received his Ph.D. from the Department of Social Relations in 1958 from Harvard. While attending Ohio Wesleyan, Vogel was a member of the Beta Sigma Tau fraternity (that later merged with the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity).
He then went to Japan for two years to study the Japanese language and conduct research interviews with middle-class families.
In 1960–1961 he was assistant professor at Yale University and from 1961–1964 a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, studying Chinese language and history. He remained at Harvard, becoming lecturer in 1964 and, in 1967, professor. He retired from teaching on June 30, 2000. Since retirement he has published a book on Deng Xiaoping and his era.
He taught at Harvard starting in 1964 and became a tenured professor in 1968. Vogel succeeded John Fairbank to become the second Director (1972–1977) of Harvard's East Asian Research Center and Second Chairman of the Council for East Asian Studies (1977–1980). He was Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Center for International Affairs (1980–1987) and, since 1987, Honorary Director. He was Chairman of the undergraduate concentration in East Asian Studies from its inception in 1972 until 1991. He was Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies during 1973–1975 and 1995–1999. He was the first Director of the Asia Center (1997–1999). He retired from teaching in 2000.
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