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Zhang Changshou (1929-2020)
On January 30, 2020, Zhang Changshou, former deputy director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, passed away. Zhang Changshou graduated from the History Department of Yenching University in 1952. In September 1952, he was assigned to teach at the Workers' and Peasants' Liancheng Middle School affiliated to Tsinghua University. In July 1956, he was transferred to the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (renamed the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1977) and engaged in field excavations and Shangzhou archaeology research for a long time. He has served as a research intern and assistant researcher, and was promoted to associate researcher in 1979 and researcher and doctoral supervisor in 1986. From July 1985 to May 1988, he was deputy director of the Institute of Archaeology, and in December 1988 he was awarded the Corresponding Academician of the German Archaeological Institute. He retired in May 1989. Since 1991, he has enjoyed special government allowances issued by the State Council. In 2006, he was elected as a member of the Honorary Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His major academic achievements include Zhangjiapo Western Zhou Cemetery (editor-in-chief, 1999), Western Zhou Bronze Ware Phased Dating (co-author, 1999), Shang Zhou Archaeology Collection (2007) and so on.
Lu Caiquan (1938-2020)
On January 30, 2020, Lu Caiquan, an expert in medieval Chinese history, passed away. Lu Caiquan successively worked in the Hubei Provincial Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences, the Hubei Provincial May Seventh Cadre School, the Wuhan Municipal Teachers' Training College and other units, and later became an associate professor and professor of the Department of History of Wuhan University. Throughout his life, he devoted himself to the teaching and research of the history of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Sui and Tang Dynasties, especially focusing on the study of the history and epitaphs of the Northern Dynasties, and published "Ningrong Yi in Xizhou and Its Related Problems in the Early Tang Dynasty- One of the Studies on the Texts of the Pavilions produced by Turpan", "Military Service, Fan Bing and Silk of the Northern Dynasty", "The System of Conscription in the Northern Dynasty", etc.
Wu Huaiqi
Wu Huaiqi (1938-2020)
On February 4, 2020, Wu Huaiqi, a famous Chinese historian and professor at Beijing Normal University, passed away. Wu Huaiqi has long been engaged in the study of the history of Chinese historiography, and has published monographs such as "History of Historical Thought in the Song Dynasty", "History of Chinese Historiographical Thought", "Commentary on Zheng Qiao", "Yixue and Historiography", "Historiography theory and History of Historiography in the 20th Century", and edited the 10-volume "General History of Chinese Historical Thought" and the 6-volume "General Theory of Chinese Historical Thought", which have had a far-reaching influence in the academic community.
Sun Liqun
Sun Liqun (1950-2020)
On February 10, 2020, Sun Liqun, a famous Chinese expert in the history of the Qin and Han Dynasties and the history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties of Wei and Jin, passed away. Sun Liqun has been engaged in the teaching and research of ancient Chinese history for a long time, and before his death, he opened courses such as "Ancient Chinese History", "History of the Southern and Northern Dynasties of Wei and Jin" and "History of Ancient Chinese Scholars" at Nankai University, which were widely praised by students. He has served as the main speaker of many issues of CCTV's "Hundred Tribunes" program, successively lecturing on topics such as "Lü Buwei", "Li Si", "Fan Li", "I Read the Classic Analysis of "Han Feizi", "Bian Que of ancient Chinese Medicine Stories", "From Sima to Sima and so on". He is the author of "The Life of Scholars in Ancient China", "Scholars and Society: Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties", "Interpretation of the Double Stars of great Qin politics - Lü Buwei and Li Si", "Chinese Culture Tongzhi and Social Class System" and so on.
Man Zhimin
Man Zhimin (1952-2020)
On February 27, 2020, Chinese historical geographer Man Zhimin passed away. Man Zhimin joined the Institute of Chinese Historical Geography of Fudan University in 1983 and received his master's and doctoral degrees in history. He has been a visiting scholar in the Department of Geography at the State University of New York at Albany and the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. He once served as the deputy director of the Historical Geography Committee of the Chinese Geographical Society, a member of the Climate Committee of the Geographical Society of China, the chairman of the Shanghai Geographical Names Society, the Distinguished Professor of Fudan University, the director of the Institute of Chinese Historical Geography of Fudan University, and the director of the Historical Geography Research Center of the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. His research interests include climate change in China's historical period, land use in China's historical period, and China's historical geographic information system. He has published dozens of academic papers and 4 books (including co-authors).
Liu Zhiqin
Liu Zhiqin (1935-2020)
On April 8, 2020, Chinese historian Liu Zhiqin passed away. Liu Zhiqin graduated from the Department of History of Fudan University in 1960 and was a researcher at the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He mainly focuses on Ming history and historical theory, and is the author of "Introduction to Chinese Cultural History", "Late Ming Culture and Society", "Research on Etiquette and Custom Culture", "Merchant Capital and Late Ming Society", "Late Ming History", "Zhang Juzheng Commentary" and so on.
Yuan Guangquan
Yuan Guangquan (1963-2020)
On May 22, 2020, Mr. Yuan Guangquan, a well-known translator and associate professor of the School of Foreign Chinese of Jiangsu Normal University, passed away. Mr. Yuan has translated many works on Japanese Chinese history, such as "History of the Founding of the Communist Party of China", "Sun Yat-sen and the "Era of Science", "Table and Mile of Modern Chinese History", "Chinese Anti-Japanese Military History (1937~1945)", "Research on the History of China's Modern Cotton Textile Industry", etc. The translation skills have been recognized by authors, respected by readers, and enjoyed a high reputation in the academic circles.
János Bauk
Janosh Bauk (1929-2020)
On June 18, 2020, the famous medieval scholar János M. Bak (1929-2020) passed away.
Zou Yilin
Zou Yilin (1935-2020)
On June 19, 2020, Zou Yilin, a famous Chinese historian and historical geographer, passed away. In 1988, Zou Yilin was awarded the title of young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions at the national level by the State Council, and also served as a professional member of academic groups such as the Chinese Geographical Society, the Chinese Historical Geography Society, the China Hydraulic History Society, and the Shanghai Historical Society. It has made outstanding achievements in the fields of China's historical geography, historical and economic geography, canal history, and Yellow River history, and has cultivated a large number of historical and geographical talents. He was the editor-in-chief of Historical Geography. His editor-in-chief's "China Physical Geography and Historical Physical Geography" won the first prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Science and Technology Progress Award in 1986, "Historical Geography of the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain" won the first prize of the first humanities and social science achievements of colleges and universities in 1995, and also published academic works such as "The Yellow River in Ancient Times", "Overview of China's Historical Geography", "Chinese Historical Human Geography", "Chunlu Historical Geography Manuscript", "Chunlu Historical Geography Manuscript Continuation", "Ten Lectures on Chinese Historical Geography" and other academic works.
Wang Jiafan
Wang Jiafan (1938-2020)
On July 7, 2020, Wang Jiafan, an ancient Chinese historian, passed away. Wang Jiafan was admitted to the History Department of East China Normal University in 1957 and stayed on to teach in 1961. He has long been engaged in the teaching and research of ancient Chinese history, focusing on the Ming and Qing dynasties, and has also been involved in the field of historical concepts and historical methods. His representative works include "Discussion on the Construction of the Discipline of Chinese Social History", "General Theory of Chinese History", "A Hundred Years of Turbulence and The Reciprocation of a Thousand Years", "Historians and Historiography", "Drifting Voyage: A Journey of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Long River of History", "A Series of Drafts of the History of the Ming and Qing Dynasties", and "Essays on the Social History of the Ming and Qing Dynasties".
He Qinggu (1931-2020)
On July 9, 2020, He Qinggu, an expert in the study of China's pre-Qin history and a professor at the School of History and Culture of Shaanxi Normal University, passed away. He was a director of the Chinese Qin and Han History Research Association, the vice president of the Sima Qian Research Association of Shaanxi Province, the vice president of the Qin Culture Research Association, and the author of "Commentary on Qin Shi Huang" and "Interpretation of the Three Auxiliary Yellow Diagrams".
Bernard Baileyn
Bernard Bailien (1922-2020)
On August 7, 2020 local time, the famous American historian Bernard Bailyn passed away. Bernard was a professor at Harvard University, where he studied the history of American colonial and revolutionary work. His books "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution" and "Voyagers to the West" won the Pulitzer Prize, respectively. In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal, which former U.S. President Barack Obama described as "a pioneer in the early stages of American history and a pioneer in the history of the Atlantic."
Zhu Huan (1926-2020)
On August 9, 2020, Chinese historian and history educator Zhu Huan passed away. Zhu Huan has been involved in various fields such as general history of the world, ancient history of the world, historical theory, comparative study of historiography, and Russian history. He has presided over more than 10 major social science projects of the National Social Sciences and the Ministry of Education, and has written and edited works such as "General History of the World - Medieval Fascicle", "World History, Ancient Compilation, Volume II", "Comparative Study of feudal economic forms in Asia and Europe", "Ancient History of the World", "Europa Civilization", "New Horizons in the Rise of Industrial Civilization", and "Ancient History of the World" (upper and lower volumes).
Mark Mancor
Mark Mancor (1933-2020)
On August 18, 2020 local time, the American historian Mark Mancall passed away. Mark is professor emeritus of history at Stanford University and founder of structured liberal arts education, where he studies the history, religion, language, and culture of Middle and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Russia and China: Their Diplomatic Relations to 1728 and China at the Center: Three Hundred Years of Foreign Policy.
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Pan Jixing (1931-2020)
On August 23, 2020, Pan Jixing, a retired researcher at the Institute of Natural Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a corresponding academician of the International Academy of the History of Science, passed away. He is the author of "History of Chinese Papermaking", "History of Chinese Gunpowder", "Translation of Tiangong Kaiwu" and so on.
Fan Hongye
Fan Hongye (1942-2020)
On August 29, 2020, Fan Hongye, a historian of modern and contemporary Chinese science, passed away. He devoted his life to the study of the history of modern science in China.
David Rothman
David Rothman (1937-2020)
On August 30, 2020 local time, David J. Rothman, a famous American social historian and historian of medicine, passed away. Rothman received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1964 and became a tenured professor at Columbia University in 1971. His early research focused primarily on U.S. state governance and social policy issues, publishing Politics and Power: The United States Senate, 1869-1901, The Discovery of the Asylum, and Conscience and Convenience: Developing American Refuges and Their Alternatives. Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America, et al. He has since focused on the history of social medicine, writing Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care and Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision-making), The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement (co-authored with Mrs. 100).
Si Jia
Si Jia (1978-2020)
On October 11, 2020, Si Jia, a professor in the Department of History of Fudan University, passed away. Si Jia received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 and has been a professor and doctoral supervisor in the History Department of Fudan University since 2016. His research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese history and the history of cultural exchanges between China and the West, and his research interests include Shanghai's modern urban society, publishing history, cultural history and reading history. He is the author of "Modern Chinese-English Language Contact and Cultural Negotiation" and "The Spread of English in China: Users, Historical Texts and Language Landscapes", the latter of which has made pioneering contributions to the study of the social and cultural history of modern Chinese languages.
David Schneier
David Schneier (1972-2020)
On November 4, 2020 local time, the American Jewish historian David Shneer passed away. Schneil is a professor of history at the University of Corudo and director of the Jewish Studies Program, and his books Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust and Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture) was shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award.
David Hackett
David Hackett (1940-2020)
On November 15, 2020 local time, american historian David Andrew Hackett passed away. David taught in the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso for more than 40 years, teaching courses such as "History of the Weimar Republic" and "Rise of the Nazi Party." He specializes in German history and 20th-century European history. The Buchenwald Report was compiled, translated and edited in 1995, and the book was subsequently translated into Chinese, and the original manuscript was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial.
Riki Sasaki (1947-2020)
On December 4, 2020, science historian Risaki Passed Away. His major works include: The Historical Structure of the Scientific Revolution, The Birth of Modern Academic Ideas, Descartes' Mathematical Thought, Twentieth-Century Mathematical Thought, and Marxism in the 21st Century.
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Terrence Cole
Terrence Cole (1974-2020)
On December 12, 2020 local time, the American historian Terrence Cole passed away. Terrence, a former UAF professor and director of the Public History Office at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, focuses on alaska history and is the author of E.T. Barnett: The Strange Story of fairbanks founders. T. Barnette: The Strange Story of the Man Who Founded Fairbanks), Crooked Past: The History of a Frontier Mining Camp - Fairbanks, Alaska, among others.
Yang Bifang
Yang Bifang (1946-2020)
On December 14, 2020 local time, Chinese-American historian Judy Yung passed away. Bifang Yang is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, specializing in oral history, women's history, and Asian-American history. He has served as a historical advisor to the American Chinese Historical Society, the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, and a number of historical films. He is the author of Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (co-author), Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco, and Voices of Freedom: An Unbound Chronicle of Chinese Women in San Francisco Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco) et al.
Vogel
Vogel (1930-2020)
On December 21, 2020 local time, Ezra Vogel, professor emeritus of Harvard University, passed away. Vogel is a well-known expert on China and Japan, known as the Harvard "Mr. China". He began to study Chinese in the 1960s, studied China, and in 1989, "One Step Ahead: Guangdong in Reform" recorded the major events that occurred and pioneered in Guangdong, the frontier of reform, in the decade from 1978 to 1988, and was the first monograph by foreign scholars to comprehensively study and report on China's reform. He also studied Asian issues and was twice director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies. He is the author of a series of books on China, Japan, and Asia, such as "Japan First: Implications for the United States", "Guangzhou under Communism: Planning and Politics of a Provincial Capital, 1949-1968", "The Four Asian Tigers", "China and Japan: A History of Exchanges in 1500 Years", "Deng Xiaoping Era", etc. Among them, "The Deng Xiaoping Era" has been praised as "an indispensable work for understanding contemporary China".
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