Editing Ezra F. Vogel (section)

==Biography==
Ezra Vogel was born to Joseph and Edith Vogel, a family of Jewish immigrants in 1930 in [[Delaware, Ohio]].<ref name=wp/> As a child, he helped his father in the family's clothing store, known as The People's Store.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} He graduated from [[Ohio Wesleyan University]] in 1950, and maintained close ties with his alma mater for the rest of his life, donating royalties from his books and returning to campus frequently.{{sfnb|Vogel|2020}} While at Ohio Wesleyan, Vogel was a member of the [[Beta Sigma Tau]] fraternity (later merged with the [[Pi Lambda Phi]] fraternity).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://pilambdaphi.110mb.com/ |title=Pi Lambda Phi 2010 Membership Directory |access-date=September 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707054627/http://pilambdaphi.110mb.com/ |archive-date=July 7, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He was drafted<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-12|title=Asian voice: Ezra F Vogel|url=https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/12/asian-voice-ezra-f-vogel/|access-date=2021-01-24|website=East Asia Forum|language=en}}</ref> to serve two years in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] without seeing combat<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rabbit|first=Chairman|title=傅高义教授与笔者邮件往来选登|url=http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA3MDIzODIwMg==&mid=2458091080&idx=1&sn=6eadffc55d5b0ce0dd351c84c42fa412&chksm=884834ddbf3fbdcba4da81b5fdecf00eb7a125045e9dd3a0a96ed1946d663a17033044b04fa4#rd|access-date=2021-01-24|website=微信公众平台}}</ref> during the [[Korean War]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Professor Ezra Vogel|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/ezravogel/biocv|access-date=2021-01-24|website=scholar.harvard.edu|language=en}}</ref> The service involved working for a psychiatric unit of a military hospital.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zhao|first=Xu|title=A son of the West whose passion pointed East|url=https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202101/16/WS6001f8ada31024ad0baa2fa4.html|access-date=2021-01-27|website=www.chinadaily.com.cn}}</ref> After discharge, Vogel enrolled in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard and graduated with his PhD in 1958.  His advisor was [[Talcott Parsons]]. After two years of field work in Japan, he worked as an assistant professor at [[Yale University]] from 1960 to 1961, but returned to Harvard for post-doctoral work on Chinese language and history. He was appointed as a lecturer in 1964, later becoming a tenured professor; he remained at Harvard until his retirement.{{sfnb|Harvard University|2020}}

Vogel was involved with several research centers during his career. He was director of Harvard's East Asian Research Center from 1972 to 1977 and chairman of the [[Council for East Asian Studies]] from 1977 to 1980. He also was director of the Program on US–Japan Relations at the [[Center for International Affairs]] from 1980 to 1987, and was named honorary director upon stepping down.{{sfnb|Harvard University|2020}} He was director of the [[Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies]] from 1973 to 1975{{sfnb|Suleski|2005|pp=45–58}} and from 1995 to 1999.{{sfnb|Suleski|2005|p=99}}  He was founding director of the [[Harvard University Asia Center|Asia Center]] (1997–1999). He retired on June 30, 2000.{{sfnb|Harvard University|2020}}

Vogel was married to Charlotte Ikels, professor of anthropology at [[Case Western Reserve University]]. He had three children with his first wife, Suzanne Hall Vogel: David, [[Steven K. Vogel|Steven]] (who became a political scientist), and Eve.{{sfnb|Harvard University|2020}}

Vogel died in [[Mount Auburn Hospital]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], on December 20, 2020, at the age of 90.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Qin|first=Amy|date=2020-12-23|title=Ezra F. Vogel, Eminent Scholar of China and Japan, Dies at 90|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/world/asia/ezra-f-vogel-dead.html|access-date=2020-12-23|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=December 21, 2020|script-title=ja:エズラ・ボーゲル氏死去 ジャパン・アズ・ナンバーワン|language=ja|publisher=朝日新闻|url=https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASNDP36TDNDPUHBI00F.html|access-date=December 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221032247/https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASNDP36TDNDPUHBI00F.html|archive-date=December 21, 2020}}</ref>