Lucian Pye
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| Born |
Lucian W. Pye October 21, 1921 Fenzhou, China |
| Died |
September 5, 2008 (aged 86) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Yale University(Ph.D. ) Carleton College |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Main interests
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Political Science |
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Notable ideas
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Political culture, political psychology |
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Influences
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Lucian W. Pye (Chinese: 白魯恂; pinyin: Bái Lǔxún; 21 October 1921 – 5 September 2008) was a political scientist, sinologist and comparative politics expert considered one of the leading China scholars in the United States. Educated at Carleton College and Yale University, Pye chose to focus on the characteristics of specific cultures in forming theories of political development of modernization of Third World nations, rather than seeking universal and overarching theories like most political scientists. As a result, he became regarded as one of the foremost contemporary practitioners and proponents of the concept of political culture and political psychology. Pye was a teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 35 years and served on several Asia-related research and policy organizations. He wrote or edited books and served as advisor to Democratic presidential candidates, including John F. Kennedy. Pye died of pneumonia at age 86.
Lucian W. Pye was born on October 21, 1921 in Fenzhou, in Shanxi Province in northwest China. His father, Watts O. Pye, a graduate of Carleton College, and his mother, Gertrude Chaney Pye, were Congregational missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. When his father died in 1926, he and his mother stayed in Fenzhou until he moved to Oberlin, Ohio for his high school education. Pye lost much of his grasp of the Chinese language upon moving to Ohio, only to take it up again later. Pye graduated in 1943 from Carleton College, where he met Mary Toombs Waddill, of Greenville, South Carolina; they married in 1945, and she would co-write and help edit many of his books and writings over the years.
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