Ross Terrill, a longtime Non-Resident Associate in Research of the Fairbank Center, passed away on August 2 at the age of 85. He earned his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard in 1970, where he studied on a Knox Memorial Scholarship under Professors Stanley Hoffman, Benjamin Schwartz, and John King Fairbank. His affiliation with the Fairbank Center began in 1970. He later taught as an Associate Professor in Government at Harvard from 1970 to 1974. Professor Terrill was the author of numerous books and articles on China, including biographies of Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing as well as China in Our Time (1992) and The New Chinese Empire (2003). His writings played an important role in helping the outside world understand the tremendous changes happening in China from the 1960s onwards. To learn more about his extraordinary life and scholarly career, please read the obituaries published in the New York Times and Washington Post.
