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H-ASIA May 5, 2013 Professor Albert Feuerwerker (1927-2013) ********************************************************************** Ed. note: I have appended a brief bibliography at the end of this post. FFC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Par Cassel <cassel@umich.edu> Dear members of H-ASIA, I very much regret to inform the H-Net community that Albert Feuerwerker, professor emeritus of Chinese history at the University of Michigan, passed away on April 27, Below is an obituary from the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Best wishes, Par Cassel University of Michigan CCS Mourns the Passing of Albert Feuerwerker May 03, 2013 Albert Feuerwerker, who enjoyed a long and active career at the University of Michigan and who fashioned a distinguished legacy as a scholar of Chinese history, passed away on April 27, 2013. Born in 1927, he was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied at Harvard University, earning his A.B. degree in history, *magnum cum laude*, in 1950 and his Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages in 1957. He was a lecturer at the University of Toronto (1955-1958) and a research fellow at Harvard (1958-1960), and then came to the University of Michigan in 1959, where he spent the remainder of his career. He became professor emeritus in 1996. At the University of Michigan, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Center for Chinese Studies. He served as its first director, 1961-1967, and again from 1972 to 1983. He applied his leadership to making the University of Michigan one of the major centers in the country for Chinese studies and for Asian studies more broadly. He secured grants, facilitated the creation of new positions in other departments, helped to recruit faculty, supported the growth of the Asia Library, and negotiated a secure place for Asian studies among the University's commitments. He was chair of the Department of History from 1984 to 1987 and served on several important University committees. His professional activities outside the University were extensive. Among them was the presidency of the Association for Asian Studies, 1991-1992. He served on various national committees over the years, sometimes as chair or co-chair, including the SSRC-ACLS Joint Committee on Contemporary China, the SSRC Subcommittee on Research on the Chinese Economy, the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (of the National Academy of Sciences), the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the SSRC Committee on Exchanges with Asian Institutions. He served on the editorial boards of several major academic journals. The main focus in his scholarly publications was on the Chinese economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although he often ventured productively into other areas. He set a base-line for discussions of the role of the Qing state in modern economic development with his monograph, *China's Early Industrialization: Sheng Hsuan-huai (1844-1916) and Mandarin Enterprise* (Harvard, 1958). His 1970 article, "Handicraft and Manufactured Cotton Textiles in China, 1871-1910," was immediately the standard for research and argument about economic change in that period. He wrote general treatments of modern Chinese economic history that became the starting point for any further work and staples for graduate training in modern Chinese history. He also published lucid short books on eighteenth-century China, on rebellion in the nineteenth century, and the foreign presence in the early twentieth century. His publications pioneered the introduction to a Western audience of the scholarship of the People's Republic of China. He edited several important collections of academic work on China, and was a co-editor of one of the volumes of _The Cambridge History of China_, a series in which his articles appeared more than once. Albert Feuerwerker?s contributions to both his university and his field of scholarship have been enormous. He was a formidable figure in the arenas of his endeavors. Those of us who knew him will also miss him as a friend and colleague. We offer our consolations to his beloved wife, Yi-tsi, and his children, Alison and Paul. http: //www.ii.umich.edu/ccs/ci.ccsmournsthepassingofalbertfeuerwerkerfri3may2013_ci.detail --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed. note: Here is a brief overview of Al Feuerwerker's major publications: _China's early industrialization; Sheng Hsuan-huai (1844-1916) and Mandarin enterprise_ Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1958. Harvard East Asian studies, 1. LCCN 58012967. _Chinese Communist studies of modern Chinese history_ by Albert Feuerwerker and S. Cheng. (Cambridge MA: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press, 1961.) REPUBLISHED 1970 Harvard University. Chinese Economic and Political Studies, Special series. LCCN 61019595. _Modern China_ (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964) LCCN 64021957. _Approaches to modern Chinese history_, edited by Albert Feuerwerker, Rhoads Murphey [and] Mary C. Wright. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967) LCCN 67015640. _History in communist China_, edited by Albert Feuerwerker. (Cambridge MA: M.I.T. Press, 1968) LCCN 68018238. _The Chinese economy, 1912-1949_ (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, 1968) TRACED SER Michigan papers in Chinese studies ; 1. LCCN 78308451. _The Chinese economy, ca. 1870-191_ (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, 1969) TRACED SER Michigan papers in Chinese studies ; 5. NOTE An essay to appear as chapter 10 of The Cambridge History of China, vol.5. _China's early industrialization; Sheng Hsuan-huai (1844-1916) and Mandarin enterprise_ New York: Atheneum, 1970 [reprint of 1958 edition] _The foreign establishment in China in the early twentieth century_ (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1976) Michigan papers in Chinese studies ; 29. LCCN 77622897. ISBN 0892640294. _Chinese Communist studies of modern Chinese history_ by Albert Feuerwerker and S. Cheng. PUBL INFO Cambridge, East Asian Research Center, Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press, 1970 [c1961] PHYS DESC xxvii, 287 p. 28 cm. TRACED SER Harvard East Asian monographs, 11. SUBJECT China -- History -- Historiography. ADD AUTHOR Cheng, S. _Rebellion in nineteenth-century China_ (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1975.) Michigan papers in Chinese studies ; 21. LCCN 75327191. _Economic trends in the Republic of China, 1912-1949_ (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1977) TRACED SER Michigan papers in Chinese studies ; 31. "An extensive revision and enlargement of an earlier essay published under the title The Chinese economy, 1912-1949." LCCN 78621345 //r82. ISBN 0892640316. _Chinese social and economic history from the Song to 1900: report of the American delegation to a Sino-American Symposium, Beijing, 26 October-1 November 1980_ / edited by Albert Feuerwerker. (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1982) TRACED SER Michigan monographs in Chinese studies ; no. 45. NOTE The 1980 Sino-American History Symposium : how it was planned, organized, and run / Albert Feuerwerker -- Chinese history and the social sciences / G. William Skinner -- Social science history in China / Robert M. Hartwell -- Local history in China / Jerry Dennerline -- Studies of Song history in the People's Republic / Brian E. McKnight -- Demographic variables in Chinese history : a perceived challenge to the theory of class struggle / Gilbert Rozman -- Studies of legal history and other observations / Fu-mei Chang Chen -- Notes on the sprouts of capitalism / Yeh-chien Wang -- Scholarly and personal communication at the Beijing symposium / William Atwell -- History from two dimensions : a historian's view of the symposium / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Abstracts of the symposium papers -- "The Sino-American Symposium on Chinese Socioeconomic History from the Song Dynasty to 1900" : reprinted from Social sciences in China (English ed.), no. 1 (1981). LCCN 83001789. ISBN 0892640456 (pbk.) ISBN 9780892640454 (pbk.) _The Chinese economy, 1870-1949_ *Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1995) Michigan monographs in Chinese studies, 1081-9053 ; no. 71. NOTE "Originally published in Volumes 11 and 12 of The Cambridge History of China" LCCN 95042914. ISBN 0892641185 (alk. paper) _Studies in the economic history of late imperial China: handicraft, modern industry, and the State_ (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1995) TRACED SER Michigan monographs in Chinese studies ; no. 70. LCCN 95023351. ISBN 0892641177 (alk. paper) E@OE FFC ****************************************************************** To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/ --
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