Shi Jingqian, the most "storyteller" sinologist in the United States, died at the age of 85

On the evening of December 26, local time, according to the news published by Joanna Freeman, a professor of history at Yale University, on social media, Jonathan D. Spence, a famous historian and honorary professor at Yale University, passed away on December 25, 2021, local time, at the age of 85.

Born in 1936 in the United Kingdom, Shi Jingqian received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965, and is also a professor at Yale University, the director of the Center for History and East Asian Studies, and the president of the American Historical Society. Shi Jingqian, along with Philip Alden Kuhn and Frederic Evans Wakeman, is known as the "Three Masters" of American Sinology after John King Fairbank.

Since 1974, he has completed 14 historical works on China, including In Search of Modern China, Tiananmen: Intellectuals and the Chinese Revolution, The Death of Wang: The Fate of the Little People Behind the Great History, Kangxi and Cao Yin, Matteo Ricci's Palace of Memory, and Former Dynasty Dreams: Zhang Dai's Glitz and Desolation.

Source: CCTV News