【Ross Terrill -- 羅斯-特裏爾】

 

Ross Terrill

Dr. Terril received his Ph.D. in political science in 1970 from Harvard University,

his Dux of College from Wesley College, Melbourne in 1956,

and in 1962, his Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours.

He served in the Australian Army from 1957-1958.

 

 

 

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Published on Mar 6, 2013

 

ASPI jounalist fellow Graeme Dobell sits down with Professor Ross Terrill, a world-renowned expert on China and visiting senior fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).

Raised in rural Australia, Professor Terrill graduated in history and political science from the University of Melbourne in 1962 and served in the Australian Army. He took a PH.D. in political science at Harvard in 1970, where his thesis on the philosophy of R. H. Tawney was awarded the Sumner Prize and was later published as Socialism As Fellowship.

While teaching at Harvard on political thought, Chinese politics, and international affairs, he wrote "800,000,000: The Real China", "The Future of China: After Mao", "Flowers on an Iron Tree: Five Cities of China", and the original edition of "Mao". 

Terrill has visited China almost every year for many years and within China his "Mao" in Chinese translation has sold more than 1.5 million copies. He spent the month of June, 1989 in Beijing, including the climactic night of June 3-4 in Tiananmen Square. In the 1990s he returned to China for research on "China In Our Time".

Recently, he has also been visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at Monash University in Australia. His last book, "The New Chinese Empire", published by Basic Books, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

 

 

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Ross Terrill, a China specialist and Research Associate at Harvard's Fairbank Center

for Chinese Studies, is the author of nine books. Raised in rural Australia,

he graduated in history and political science from the University of Melbourne in 1962

and served in the Australian Army. He took a PH.D. in political science at Harvard in 1970,

where his thesis on the philosophy of R. H. Tawney was awarded the Sumner Prize

and was later published by Harvard University Press as Socialism As Fellowship.

1964

http://www.rossterrill.com/bio.htm

 

 

 

Ross in the sands of far west China

 

 

 

 

 

With Guo Moruo at Great Hall of the People

 

 

Ross and the camels in Muslim China

 

 

At the Forbidden City in 1971

 

 

Cruising a tributary of the Yangzi River

 

 

In Beijing with Prince Sihanouk

 

 

On Rupert Murdoch's farm in Australia