John Wilson Lewis
{{Short description|American political scientist (1930–2017)}}
{{infobox scientist
|name=John Wilson Lewis
|image=John Wilson Lewis.png
|birth_date={{Birth date|1930|11|6}}
|birth_place=Seattle, King County, Washington, U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|2017|9|4|1930|11|6}}
|death_place=Stanford, California, U.S.
|alma_mater=Deep Springs College
University of California, Los Angeles
|fields=Sinology
Vietnamese studies
|workplaces=Cornell University
Stanford University
}}
John Wilson Lewis (November 16, 1930 – September 4, 2017) was an American political scientist. He taught at Cornell University, before joining the faculty of Stanford University, where he became the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics.
Career
A native of King County, Washington, Lewis graduated from Deep Springs College in 1949 before earning a bachelor's degree at University of California, Los Angeles. He returned to UCLA after serving in the United States Navy from 1954 to 1957. Lewis received a master's degree in 1958, and completed a Ph.D. in 1962. He specialized in China–United States relations and the Korean conflict, inspired to research those topics by relatives who worked as missionaries in China and his time in the military, respectively. He began teaching at Cornell in 1961, and left for Stanford in 1968.{{cite web|url= https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/the_chinese_revolution_and_the_making_of_the_modern_peoples_liberation_army |title= The Chinese Revolution and the Making of the Modern People's Liberation Army |language= en |work= Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies |date= April 17, 2000 |access-date= August 27, 2024 |archive-date= August 27, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240827161816/https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/the_chinese_revolution_and_the_making_of_the_modern_peoples_liberation_army |url-status=dead}} At Stanford, Lewis became founding director of the Center for East Asian Studies,{{cite web|url= https://www.ploughshares.org/issues-analysis/article/john-lewis-1930-2017 |title= John Lewis (1930-2017) - A North Korea expert like no other |first= Jennifer |last= Abrahamson |language= en |work= Ploughshares Fund |date= August 28, 2017 |access-date= August 27, 2024 |archive-date= August 27, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240827150747/https://www.ploughshares.org/issues-analysis/article/john-lewis-1930-2017 |url-status=dead}} serving until 1970 when he started the Center for International Security and Arms Control,{{cite magazine|url= https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/70/9/69/908191/Sidney-David-Drell |title= Sidney David Drell |first1= James D. |last1= Bjorken |first2= Richard L. |last2= Garwin |first3= William J. |last3= Perry |volume= 70 |issue= 9 |pages= 69–70 |magazine= Physics Today |publisher= American Institute of Physics |language= en |issn= 1945-0699 |doi= 10.1063/PT.3.3700 |doi-access= free |oclc= 60622885 |lccn= 51004195 |date= 2017 |access-date= August 27, 2024 |archive-date= August 27, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240827151940/https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/70/9/69/908191/Sidney-David-Drell |url-status=dead}} which later became the Center for International Security and Cooperation in 1983.{{cite web|url= https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/cisac_history |title= A Short History of CISAC |language= en |work= Center for International Security and Cooperation |access-date= August 27, 2024 |archive-date= August 27, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240827151706/https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/cisac_history |url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url= https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/john-lewis-cisac-co-founder-stanford-political-scientist-and-groundbreaking-asian-politics |title= John Lewis, CISAC co-founder, dies at 86 |first= Clifton B. |last= Parker |language= en |work= Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies |date= September 7, 2017 |access-date= August 27, 2024 |archive-date= August 27, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240827151703/https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/john-lewis-cisac-co-founder-stanford-political-scientist-and-groundbreaking-asian-politics |url-status=dead}} From 1983 to 1990, Lewis led what became the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.{{cite news|last1=Parker |first1=Clifton B. |title= John Lewis, Stanford political scientist and groundbreaking Asian politics expert, dies at 86 |url= https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2017/09/stanford-political-scientist-john-lewis-dies-86 |work=Stanford University |date=September 4, 2017 |access-date= August 7, 2024 |archive-date= August 7, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240807234239/https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2017/09/stanford-political-scientist-john-lewis-dies-86 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/world/asia/john-w-lewis-dead-china-expert-and-vietnam-war-critic.html |title= John W. Lewis, China Expert and Vietnam War Critic, Dies at 86 |first= Sam |last= Roberts |language= en |work= The New York Times |date= September 18, 2017 |access-date= August 7, 2024 |archive-date= April 30, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220430061955/http://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/world/asia/john-w-lewis-dead-china-expert-and-vietnam-war-critic.html |url-status=dead}}
Personal
Bibliography
- {{cite book |first1= John Wilson |last1= Lewis |date= 1963 |title= Leadership in Communist China |location= Ithaca, New York |publisher= Cornell University Press |language= en |oclc= 326156 |lccn= 63012090}}
- {{cite book |first1= John Wilson |last1= Lewis |first2= George McTurnan |last2= Kahin |date= 1967 |title= The United States in Vietnam: An Analysis in Depth of the History of America's Involvement in Vietnam |location= New York |publisher= Dial Press |language= en |oclc= 45035 |lccn= 66021593}}
- {{cite book |first1= John Wilson |last1= Lewis |author2= University of London. Contemporary China Institute |date= 1970 |title= Party Leadership and Revolutionary Power in China |location= Cambridge |publisher= Cambridge University Press |language= en |isbn= 9780521096140 |oclc= 94625 |lccn= 75120056}}
- {{cite book |first1= John Wilson |last1= Lewis |first2= Litai |last2= Xue |date= 1988 |title= China Builds the Bomb |location= Stanford, California |publisher= Stanford University Press |language= en |isbn= 9780804714525 |oclc= 16950375 |lccn= 87030404}}
- {{cite book |first1= John Wilson |last1= Lewis |first2= Litai |last2= Xue |first3= Sergeĭ Nikolaevich |last3= Goncharov |date= 1993 |title= Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War |location= Stanford, California |publisher= Stanford University Press |language= en |isbn= 9780804721158 |oclc= 28222130 |lccn= 93023971}}
- {{cite book |first1= John Wilson |last1= Lewis |first2= Litai |last2= Xue |date= 1994 |title= China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age |location= Stanford, California |publisher= Stanford University Press |language= en |isbn= 9780804723039 |oclc= 1038545358 |lccn= 94011688}}
- {{cite book |first1= John Wilson |last1= Lewis |first2= Litai |last2= Xue |date= 2006 |title= Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War |location= Stanford, California |publisher= Stanford University Press |language= en |isbn= 9780804753913 |oclc= 65201282 |lccn= 2006009400}}
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