John Wilson Lewis Explained

John Wilson Lewis
Birth Date:	6 November 1930
Birth Place:	Seattle, King County, Washington, U.S.
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.^[1] At Stanford, Lewis became founding director of the Center for East Asian Studies,^[2] serving until 1970 when he started the Center for International Security and Arms Control,^[3] which later became the Center for International Security and Cooperation in 1983.^{[4] [5]} From 1983 to 1990, Lewis led what became the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.^{[6] [7]}

Personal

Lewis married his wife Jacquelyn in 1954, with whom he had three children. He lived on the Stanford University campus, where he died at the age of 86 on September 4, 2017.^[6]

Bibliography

• Book: John Wilson . Lewis . 1963 . Leadership in Communist China . . . en . 326156 . 63012090.
• Book: John Wilson . Lewis . George McTurnan . Kahin . 1967 . The United States in Vietnam: An Analysis in Depth of the History of America's Involvement in Vietnam . . . en . 45035 . 66021593.
• Book: John Wilson . Lewis . University of London. Contemporary China Institute . 1970 . Party Leadership and Revolutionary Power in China . . . en . 9780521096140 . 94625 . 75120056.
• Book: John Wilson . Lewis . Litai . Xue . 1988 . China Builds the Bomb . . . en . 9780804714525 . 16950375 . 87030404.
• Book: John Wilson . Lewis . Litai . Xue . Sergeĭ Nikolaevich . Goncharov . 1993 . Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War . . . en . 9780804721158 . 28222130 . 93023971.
• Book: John Wilson . Lewis . Litai . Xue . 1994 . China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age . . . en . 9780804723039 . 1038545358 . 94011688.
• Book: John Wilson . Lewis . Litai . Xue . 2006 . Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War . . . en . 9780804753913 . 65201282 . 2006009400.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Chinese Revolution and the Making of the Modern People's Liberation Army . en . . April 17, 2000 . August 27, 2024 . August 27, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240827161816/https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/the_chinese_revolution_and_the_making_of_the_modern_peoples_liberation_army . live.
2. Web site: John Lewis (1930-2017) - A North Korea expert like no other . Jennifer . Abrahamson . en . . August 28, 2017 . August 27, 2024 . August 27, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240827150747/https://www.ploughshares.org/issues-analysis/article/john-lewis-1930-2017 . live.
3. Sidney David Drell . James D. . Bjorken . Richard L. . Garwin . William J. . Perry . 70 . 9 . 69–70 . . . en . 1945-0699 . 10.1063/PT.3.3700 . free . 60622885 . 51004195 . 2017 . August 27, 2024 . August 27, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240827151940/https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/70/9/69/908191/Sidney-David-Drell . live.
4. Web site: A Short History of CISAC . en . . August 27, 2024 . August 27, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240827151706/https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/cisac_history . dead.
5. Web site: John Lewis, CISAC co-founder, dies at 86 . Clifton B. . Parker . en . . September 7, 2017 . August 27, 2024 . August 27, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240827151703/https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/john-lewis-cisac-co-founder-stanford-political-scientist-and-groundbreaking-asian-politics . live.
6. News: Parker . Clifton B. . John Lewis, Stanford political scientist and groundbreaking Asian politics expert, dies at 86 . . September 4, 2017 . August 7, 2024 . August 7, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807234239/https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2017/09/stanford-political-scientist-john-lewis-dies-86 . live.
7. Web site: John W. Lewis, China Expert and Vietnam War Critic, Dies at 86 . Sam . Roberts . en . . September 18, 2017 . August 7, 2024 . April 30, 2022 . 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 . live.