Stuart R. Schram

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Professor Stuart Schram in his office at SOAS, London (summer 1989)

Stuart Reynolds Schram (born February 27, 1924 in Excelsior , Minnesota ; died July 8, 2012 in France ) was an American physicist , political scientist, and sinologist .

Life

Schram graduated from the University of Minnesota and graduated summa cum laude in 1944. After graduation, he was hired and moved to Chicago to work on the Manhattan Project . After World War II , he enrolled at Columbia University , where he studied political science and obtained his doctorate in France. His interest turned to China in the 1950s when he started learning Chinese. He specialized in the study of modern Chinese politics and is best known for his work on the life and thought of Mao Zedong , particularly his multi-volume Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings . His Mao biography was published by Penguin Books in 1966 . He was invited by the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and Schram founded the Contemporary China Institute and co-authored China Quarterly . In 1989 he moved back to the USA. At the request of Roderick MacFarquhar, director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University , he began translating and editing a number of Mao Zedong's writings, most of which were published before his death. He died of a stroke in France in July 2012.

Some of his publications have also been translated into German.

Stuart Schram and Owen Lattimore (Amsterdam, 1967)

Publications (selection)

  • 1954. Protestantism and Politics in France . Corbière & Jugain.
  • 1966. Mao Tse-tung . Penguin Books.
  • 1967. trans. Mao Tse-Tung: Basic Tactics . Pall Mall Press.
  • 1969. The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung . Embossers.
  • 1974. Mao Tse-tung Unrehearsed . Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-021786-5
  • 1975. Chairman Mao Talks to the People: Talks and Letters: 1956-1971 . Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-70641-2
  • 1983. Mao Zedong: a Preliminary Reassessment . Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. ISBN 978-962-201-303-2
  • 1985. ed. The Scope of State Power in China . School of Oriental and African Studies. ISBN 978-0-7286-0122-2
  • 1989. The Thought of Mao Tse-Tung . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-31062-8
  • 1992–. with Nancy Jane Hodes. Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949 . New York: ME Sharpe.
    • 1992. Volume I: The Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-1920 . ISBN 978-1-56324-457-5
    • 1992. Volume II: National revolution and social revolution, December 1920 – June 1927 . ISBN 978-1-56324-430-8
    • 1995. Volume III: From the Jinggangshan to the establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927 – December 1930 . ISBN 978-1-56324-439-1
    • 1997. Volume IV: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931-1934 . ISBN 978-1-56324-891-7
    • 1998. Volume V: Toward the Second United Front, January 1935 – July 1937 . ISBN 978-0-7656-0349-4
    • 2004. Volume VI: The New Stage, August 1937-1938 . ISBN 978-0-7656-0793-5
    • 2005. Volume VII: New Democracy, 1939-1941 . ISBN 978-0-7656-0794-2
    • 2015. Volume VIII: From Rectification to Coalition Government, 1942-July 1945 (with Timothy Cheek and Nancy Jane Hodes). Routledge, New York / London 2015.
  • Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) . In: Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy , edited by Antonio S. Cua. Routledge, 2003.

literature

Web links

Commons : Stuart Schram  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commencement Exercises Winter Quarter 1944 . (PDF) University of Minnesota, 1944
personal data
SURNAME Schram, Stuart R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schram, Stuart Reynolds (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist, political scientist and sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Excelsior , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2012
Place of death France