CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A leading U.S. scholar on East Asia whose biography of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping won acclaim and awards has died.
Ezra F. Vogel was 90.Vogel died Sunday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from complications after surgery, said his son, Steven Vogel.A longtime professor at Harvard, Vogel's “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China,” published in 2011, won the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, among other honors.China's Foreign Ministry on Monday called Vogel “an old friend of the Chinese people.”“Professor Ezra Vogel has made unremitting efforts to promote communication and exchanges between China and the United States and enhance mutual understanding.