Former Harvard Fairbank Center Director Fu Gaoyi Dies at 90 | International | Key news

(Central News Agency, Washington, 21st Comprehensive Foreign Telegraph Report) Ezra F. Vogel, former director of the Fairbank Center at Harvard University, has died at the age of 90. Fu Gaoyi is a well-known expert on China and Japan, especially in the Deng Xiaoping period.

The Fairbank Center tweet noted that Fu Gaoyi “is the light of the center, a learned scholar and a perfect friend who will be deeply missed.”

Fu Gaoyi, an honorary professor at Harvard University, is recognized as a Chinese expert, is fluent in Chinese and Japanese, and is the author of many books on China, Japan, and Asian studies. His book “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China” (Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China) won the “Lionel Gelber Prize”.

According to data from Harvard University, after graduating from Wesleyan University in Ohio in 1950, Fu Gaoyi served in the United States Army for two years, then studied sociology at Harvard University and obtained his doctorate in 1958. Later After obtaining her Ph.D., Fu Gaoyi went to Japan to study Japanese for two years and interviewed middle-class Japanese families to conduct research. From 1961-64, he went to Harvard for postdoctoral research, studying Chinese history and Chinese history, and retired from his teaching position in late June 2000.

Fu Gaoyi succeeded John Fairbank as second director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University from 1972 to 1977, as director of the Fairbank Center from 1995 to 1999, and became the director of the think tank “Asia Center” from 1997 to 1999. As director.

From the fall of 1993 to the fall of 1995, Fu Gaoyi left Harvard for two years to serve as the officer in charge of East Asian intelligence at the National Intelligence Council in Washington.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) noted that Fu Gaoyi has many books on Japan, China, and Asian studies. In late 2019 and early 2020, Fu Gaoyi was interviewed by the BBC in Chinese during his two visits to Hong Kong.

In an interview, Fu Gaoyi noted that, unlike Deng Xiaoping, he had experience traveling in France and studying in the Soviet Union before taking power in 1978. He had served in the army for 12 years and had served on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for 10 years. Besides having a very rich experience, many important officials I have also followed him. In contrast, Xi Jinping, who was born in the second generation of politics, had little experience in the central government before taking power. His education was completed during the Cultural Revolution, and his experience was primarily local.

Fu Gaoyi believes that Deng Xiaoping understood the big and let go of the small. Xi Jinping used more subtle methods to control his government because the central government was not as good as Deng Xiaoping. The backgrounds and behavior of the two people were very different. Xi Jinping lacked deep knowledge of foreign countries and dealt with different countries. Naturally, the relationship is not as smooth as it was in Deng Xiaoping’s time.

Relations between the United States and China have been strained in recent years. When Fo Gaoyi wrote to the “Washington Post” in July this year, he bluntly stated that current American policy is opposed to pushing Chinese American friends toward anti-American nationalism.

Fu Gaoyi believes that many Chinese students who have studied in America are open-minded. They want to be loyal to the country and are willing to be friends with the United States. However, they read that the Americans used false accusations such as that the new coronavirus came from the Wuhan laboratory to attack. In China, they are strengthening their patriotism and are willing to support the Chinese government against the United States.

Fu Gaoyi bluntly stated that US policy and political tone toward China in recent years have been dominated by officials with limited knowledge of China’s development. Making China an enemy is definitely not in America’s interest. politics. (Translator: Chen Yiwei / Verification: Liu Wenyu) 1091221