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American historian (1934–2022) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charlotte Davis Furth (January 22, 1934 – June 19, 2022) was an American scholar of Chinese history. She was a professor at California State University, Long Beach, and at the University of Southern California. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright fellowship for her research, and published several books.
Charlotte Furth | |
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Born | January 22, 1934 |
Died | June 19, 2022 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | College professor, Asian studies scholar |
Notable work | A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China’s Medical History 960-1665 (1999) |
Charlotte Davis was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the daughter of Lambert Davis and Isabella Davis.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree in French literature from the University of North Carolina in 1954.[2][3] She completed doctoral studies in Chinese history at Stanford University in 1965, the same year her younger child was born.[4]
Furth taught history for 23 years at the California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), until 1989, and then for 18 more years at the University of Southern California (USC).[5] In 1972 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[6][7] She taught at Beijing University in 1981 and 1982, one of the first American Fulbright fellows admitted to teach in China after the Cultural Revolution.[2] She retired with emeritus status from USC in 2008.[4] In 2012 she was honored by the Association for Asian Studies with an award for her "distinguished contributions to Asian Studies."[4]
Furth was co-editor of Late Imperial China,[8] and served on the editorial board of The Journal of Asian Studies. She was a contributor to The Cambridge History of China.[2]
In 1956, Charlotte Davis married her childhood friend Montgomery Furth, a philosophy professor.[3] They had two children, David and Isabella.[2] Her husband died in 1991, and she died in 2022, at the age of 88.[4]
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