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| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | alma_mater = Yale University() Carleton College | institutions = Massachusetts Institute of Technology | school_tradition = | influences = Gabriel Almond | influenced = | notable_ideas = Political culture, political psychology }} Lucian W. Pye (; 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. ==Early life== Lucian W. Pye was born on October 21, 1921 in Fenzhou, in the Shanxi Province in northwest China, to Congregational missionaries. He moved to Oberlin, Ohio for his primary education. Pye was raised bilingual and lost much of his grasp of the Chinese language upon moving to Ohio, only to relearn it later.〔Martin, Douglas. ("Lucian W. Pye, bold thinker on Asia, is dead at 86." ) ''The New York Times'', September 11, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-09-12.〕 Pye graduated in 1943 from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Pye met Mary Toombs Waddill, of Greenville, South Carolina at Carleton; they married in 1945, and she would co-write and help edit many of his books and writings over the years.〔("MIT professor Lucian W. Pye, leading China scholar, dies at 86." ) ''MIT News'', September 8, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-09-12.〕 Pye returned to China at the end of World War II to became an intelligence officer with the 5th U.S. Marines Corps, achieving the rank of second lieutenant. He returned to the United States to attend graduate school through the G.I. Bill at Yale University,〔 where he was introduced to comparative politics by his mentor, political scientist Gabriel Almond. Almond later said Pye "generally (left) me a little breathless; he had so much energy and enthusiasm."〔 During his time at Yale, Pye worked with other significant political scientists like Almond, Harold Lasswell and Nathan Leites in exploring the psychological, sociological and anthropological elements of international affairs, rather than the standard and accepted "realism" approach.〔 Pye wrote his dissertation on the attitudes underlying the warlord system of politics in China during the 1920s and earned his Ph.D. in 1951.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucian Pye」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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