Archive: August 2021 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Andrew Breiner; (Year) 2021; (Month) August

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Cary Maguire Passes Away, Leaving Legacy of Scholarship in Ethics

August 18, 2021

Cary Maguire, businessman, philanthropist, and benefactor of the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Kluge Center, passed away at age 93 on August 10, 2021, at his home in Dallas. Born in 1928, Maguire spent much of his career as an executive in the oil industry, establishing the Maguire …

Posted in: Ethics & Morality, General News

Eminent Historian and Kluge Prize Winner Yu Ying-shih Passes Away at 91

August 13, 2021

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

Yu Ying-shih, considered by many to be the greatest Chinese historian of his time, passed away on August 1st at age 91 in his Princeton, New Jersey home. Yu was Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Born in Tianjin, China, he received his PhD from Harvard University in 1962. Over …

Posted in: Foreign Policy, General News, Government, History

Refined by: (Author) Andrew Breiner; (Year) 2021; (Month) August