Source: China News Network
Washington, December 27 (China News Service) -- Jonathan D. Spence, a famous American historian, sinologist and honorary professor at Yale University, died in Connecticut, at the age of 85, local time.
Joanne B. Freeman, a professor of history at Yale University in the United States, announced the news on social media on the evening of the 26th, and called Shi Jingqian an "outstanding and pioneering historian."
Data map: Famous sinologist Shi Jingqian. Photo by China News Service reporter Hou Yu
According to the Associated Press, Shi Jingqian died at his home in West Haven, Connecticut, on the 25th. His wife, Yale University professor Annping Chin, said Mr. Shi died of complications of Parkinson's syndrome.
Shi Jingqian is one of the most famous Chinese historians in contemporary America, known as the "most storytelling" sinologist. Shi Jingqian, along with Philip A. Kuhn and Frederic Wakeman, is known as the "Three Masters" of American Sinology after John Fairbank.
Famous sinologist and historian Shi Jingqian. China News Service reporter Zhang Hao photographed
Born in 1936 in the United Kingdom, Shi Jingqian received his bachelor's degree from the University of Cambridge in 1959, his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965, and a professor of history at Yale University from 1966 to 2008.
Since 1974, Shi Jingqian has written 14 historical works on China, including "In Search of Modern China", "The Death of Wang: The Fate of the Little People Behind the Great History", "Kangxi and Cao Yin", and "Matteo Ricci's Memory Palace". Among them, "In Search of Modern China" tells the history of China from the 17th century to the 1980s, is a must-read book for universities in Western countries to study Chinese history, and is also one of the bestsellers of the New York Times. (End)