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Stuart Reynolds Schram (February 27, 1924 – July 8, 2012) was an American physicist, political scientist and sinologist who specialised in the study of modern Chinese politics. He was particularly well known for his works on the life and thought of Mao Zedong. In 1972, he married Marie-Annick Lancelot. They had a son, Arthur. 〔 ==Biography== Schram was born in Excelsior, Minnesota in 1924. He studied physics at the University of Minnesota, and graduated ''magna cum laude'' in 1944. After graduation he was drafted into the US army, and assigned to work on the Manhattan Project in Chicago, as a member of the team responsible for developing of an atomic bomb. After the end of World War II, influenced by his involvement on the development of the atomic bomb, he decided to change his focus of academic study, and enrolled at Columbia University in New York where he studied for a PhD in political science. He went to France to carry out research for his dissertation on the political behavior of French Protestants, and after receiving his PhD he moved to France. 〔 In the early 1950s, Schram wrote several articles on East and West Berlin which drew the attention of the American State Department, which withdrew his passport, though restoring it in 1955. From 1954 to 1967 he carried out research at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris, but as a non-French citizen he could not become a Professor or oversee doctoral dissertations. During the late 1950s he turned his attention to Chinese politics, and started to learn Chinese so that he could base his research on the primary sources. He focused his research on Chairman Mao, and by 1963 he had completed a book on the ''Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung''. In 1966 Penguin Books published his seminal biography of Mao. These works made him prominent in the emerging field of modern China studies. The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London offered Schram a chair. Schram led establishment of the Contemporary China Institute and the continued development of journal, China Quarterly. 〔 In 1989 he retired from his position at SOAS, and moved back to America. At the invitation of Roderick MacFarquhar, Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, he started work on the translation and editing of a ten-volume collection of the revolutionary writings of Mao Zedong, seven volumes of which were published before his death.〔〔 He died in France in July 2012 after a stroke.〔 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「Stuart R. Schram」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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