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美利坚大学国际关系学院教授和【海外看世界】主编：
国之交在于民相亲，而民相亲的基础又在于相互理解和熟悉。不久前去世的波士顿大学教授傅士卓先生就是一辈子在做中美之间相互理解的工作。他既是在“中国学”领域里的泰斗，同时又是中美交流杰出的践行者。他的研究路径和为人师表也为当前在国内方兴未艾的区域国别研究领域树立了一个标杆。
参加这次由华人论坛和【海外看世界】发起的追思活动的学者来自美国、中国大陆、新加坡、和港台地区。我们今天的活动不但是深切怀念傅士卓先生，而且也表达了我们要继续完成他未竟事业的决心。
2025年11月20日
参与本次快评的学者及所属机构：
叶敏 波士顿大学
俞可平 北京大学
徐湘林 北京大学
周志兴 美中新视角基金会
李明江 新加坡南洋理工大学
冯博 上海财经大学
高新军 编译局比较政治与经济研究中心
金君达 中国社科院
王亦诚 美国华盛顿与李大学
吴泽映 岭南大学
王国勤 浙江传媒学院
陈建凯 美国罗德学院
逄锐之 中国社科院
吉兰(Ceren Ergenc) 布鲁塞尔欧洲政策研究中心
吴斯 波士顿大学
沈永东 浙江大学
孙太一 美国克里斯多夫纽波特大学
何俊志 中山大学
张济顺 华东师范大学
陈昊 哈佛大学
以及仍然在写作中的数位傅老师的好友、学生，敬请期待。如您有任何与傅老师来往的经历尤其是有影像资料，请在我们后台留言。
王亦诚
美国华盛顿与李大学 助理教授
Remembering Joe
【追忆傅士卓系列】第9篇
11月5日晚上，我得知了我的恩师Joseph Fewsmith（傅士卓）教授不幸离世的消息。我几乎一晚上没有睡着，不敢相信这是真的。就在正好三周之前，我还在波士顿跟他吃过一次午饭，聊了很多东西。他对军队内部和军工系官僚的清洗尤其关注，还问了我很多关于中国官媒宣传风向的问题。他说他实在不喜欢用微信，就只能通过我来看人民日报的微信号了。他又关心我是否喜欢大农村、是否习惯开车上班。他还说他好久没有回中国了，现在退休之后有了时间，有点想回去看看，但又担心没有微信没有滴滴，到了机场怎么打车。我当时还兴高采烈地跟他说了不少现在中国为了吸引外国游客制定的政策，还说到了机场最好还是要找人接机的。没想到却再也没法成行了。
几个月前，今年四月的时候，Joe和其他几位老师找我去参加纪念2023年离世的Merle Goldman的纪念会议。Fairbank Center打算为Merle出版一本纪念文集，主题是知识分子史，我也提交了我的稿子。听说当年Joe从业界回到学界找工作的时候，是Merle力主把他招来BU的。很难想象，Merle刚离世两年，Joe竟然这么快也走了。Joe本来应该是那本文集的主编之一，可是他给那本文集写的关于中国新保守主义的文章，竟然成了他的遗作。
我在BU读博的六年里，Joe既像一个父亲，也像一个真正的朋友。他不讲国内师门那一套，也从来不摆架子，他的办公室是我在波士顿感觉说话最自在的地方。他经常把别人送他的茶叶转手送给我，他说他感觉茶叶在中国的一部分文化里不是用来喝的，是用来作为货币流通的。我说那我就是个大银行了，因为我真的把它们都喝进去了。后来2022年，我家里的茶叶喝完了，去他那里问他还有没有多余的茶叶，他给了我四盒，其中的一盒绿茶我现在还没有喝完。毕业之后，每次把那盒茶拿出来的时候，我都会想这是Joe给的茶，还是珍惜些喝的好。以后每次看到茶，我也都会想起他的。
Joe的身体其实一直不是特别好，去年他做了髋关节置换手术，我在去年的APSA上见到他，他拄着拐杖，但作为discussant，还是坚持去了会场。他那次康复得很快，不久之后就告诉我他扔掉了拐杖，我也就没有太担心。他几个月前中风过一次，但也完全康复了，没有留下后遗症。我上个月跟他吃饭的时候他还对此很自豪，因为中风后完全康复还是很难得的，我当时也很开心。没想到最终上天还是犹豫之后决定接走他。
如果说有什么可以算是慰藉的话，我觉得Joe直到离世，都还一直在坚持思考。他一直到生命的最后都在关注中国政治，想法也仍然犀利。我想，能够这样，坚持思考到生命的最后，也是我作为一个学者的愿望。
Joe，一路走好。能成为您的学生，真的很幸运。
On the evening of Nov.5th, I heard the sudden news that my mentor, Professor Joseph Fewsmith, had passed away. I didn't sleep almost that whole night. I couldn't believe the news. Exactly three weeks ago, I had lunch with him in Boston. We discussed a lot of things. He was particularly interested in the purges going on within the PLA and those against bureaucrats with army backgrounds. He asked me many things about the official media and their messaging. He said he really didn't like WeChat, so he had to read People's Daily's WeChat through me. He wondered if I liked rural America, and if I was used to the commute to work. He said he hadn't been back to China for a long while, and now that he was retired, he was thinking about going back sometime. But he was worried about how he could call a taxi at the airport without WeChat. I delightfully told him about the series of new policies China issued to attract foreign tourists, and I told him it was in any case better to have someone pick him up at the airport. Who would have thought that he would never make that trip.
A few months ago, in April, Joe and some other teachers of mine invited me to a conference honoring the late Merle Goldman, who passed away in 2023. The Fairbank Center planned to publish a festschrift to Merle, centering on the topic of intellectuals in China. I submitted my manuscript too. I heard that when Joe went into the academia, it was Merle who rooted for recruiting him into BU. It's hard to think that Joe would pass so quickly after Merle did. Joe was supposed to be one of the editors of that volume. But his paper in that volume, on China's neo-conservative thoughts, would turn out to be his last piece.
In my six years studying at BU, Joe was like a father to me, but he was also a true good friend. He doesn't have that teacher-student ritual Chinese students usually have to follow. His office was where I felt the freest to share my thoughts. He would give me boxes of tea that others gave him. He said he felt in some part of the Chinese culture, tea was used to circulate, not to drink. I joked that I was then a greedy banker, because I actually drank the tea. In 2022, I ran out of tea at home, and I asked him if he had extra. He gave me four boxes. One of them is still unfinished. After graduating, every time I take that box of tea out, I think to myself this is Joe's gift, and I should drink it more slowly. Now every time I drink tea, I think of him.
Joe's health was not always that great. He had a hip replacement surgery last year. When I met him at APSA in September 2024, he was walking with a cane, but he went to the conference to serve as discussant nonetheless. He recovered quickly from that one, being able to walk without a cane just a few weeks later, and my worries quickly went away. A few months ago, he had a stroke, but he also recovered quickly, and he was proud of that because it's not common for people to fully recover from a stroke. I was happy for him too. But perhaps God made the decision in the end after hesitation.
If there's any silver lining - Joe continued to be a thinker until the last moment of his life. Until the end, he was focused on Chinese politics, and his thinking remained sharp as ever. It is my wish as a scholar that I can be like him, continuing thinking until the last moment.
Rest in peace, Joe. I was truly lucky to have been your student.
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