Fei Zhengqing Center for East Asian Studies of Harvard University issued a tweet saying that we are saddened to announce the death of former director Fu Gaoyi. It is reported that Fu Gaoyi died on the 20th local time at the age of 90. Fu Gaoyi, an American sociologist and sinologist, was once the director of the East Asia Center in Fei Zhengqing, Harvard University, and was proficient in Chinese and Japanese. His works include Japan First, Middle Class in Japan, One Step Ahead: Guangdong in Reform and Opening-up, etc. He was once considered as the only scholar in the United States who was proficient in Sino-Japanese affairs. 20 13 On the morning of March 23rd, the 5th World Forum on China Studies was held in Shanghai Exhibition Center. Fu Gaoyi, former director of Fei Zhengqing Research Center of Harvard University, was awarded? World China Contribution Award? . ?

As a representative of Fei Zhengqing School of Harvard University, Fu Gaoyi has also done a lot of research on China, Japanese and Korean. His works, such as Japan No.1, were famous for a while. He is considered to be one of the few western scholars who are proficient in the history of China and Japan. For readers in China, Fu Gaoyi enjoys a high reputation, mainly because he spent 65,438+00 years, and in 2065,438+00, he published his masterpiece "Deng Xiaoping Times" about China. This book is considered to be? So far, the most comprehensive record of China's amazing bumpy road to economic reform? . So he's called? Mr. China. ?

Fu Gaoyi got this evaluation because he studied China from 196 1 for nearly 60 years. It can be said that he followed most of the course of China's modernization. Few contemporary western scholars have a profound understanding of the difficulties and costs of China's modernization process like him, which is reflected in the Deng Xiaoping Times, which is Fu Gaoyi's praise for Deng Xiaoping. ?

Even in his later years, Fu Gaoyi actively encouraged the maintenance of Sino-US relations. He repeatedly stressed that the United States should recognize China's achievements in the process of modernization. This gesture is too much for some people? Join the WTO? , but? Join the WTO? Isn't this the responsibility of a scholar?