{{Short description|American political scientist (1939–2022)}} {{Infobox person | birth_date = {{birth year|1939}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|6|29|1939}} | citizenship = American | education = [[University of California, Berkeley]] (PhD) | occupation = Political scientist, journalist }}
'''Suzanne Pepper''' (1939 – 29 June 2022<ref name="hkfp_obituary_pepper"/>) was a Hong Kong–based [[American literature|American]] [[political scientist]] and journalist. She was editor of the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]]'s ''China Review'' from 1995 to 1996.<ref>{{cite web|website=The Chinese University Press|url=https://www.chineseupress.com/index.php?route=product/search&advanced=true&search_author=Pepper|title=Search}}</ref>
==Biography== Pepper left the United States for [[Hong Kong]] in the 1960s to continue [[Chinese language]] studies that she had begun at the University of California at Berkeley. There she met fellow languages student [[VG Kulkarni]], an [[Indian Army]] officer posted to India's consulate in Hong Kong. After several years in New York where they married in 1970, they returned to Hong Kong in 1973.<ref name="hkfp_obituary_pepper"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.asiaasset.com/aam/2014-12/1214_obituary.aspx&gl=hk&client=firefox-b|title=A Man of his Words|last=Stargardt|first=Julian|website=Asia Asset Management|date=2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227083637/https://www.asiaasset.com/aam/2014-12/1214_obituary.aspx&gl=hk&client=firefox-b |archive-date=2014-12-27 }}</ref>
Pepper earned a PhD in [[political science]] from [[University of California at Berkeley]] in 1972.<ref name="hkfp_obituary_pepper"/> She authored a number of political science works focusing on China in general, and Hong Kong in particular. She was also a founding contributor to ''[[Hong Kong Free Press]]''.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Hong Kong Free Press|url=http://hongwrong.com/hong-kong-free-press-crowd-funding/|title=Hong Kong Free Press Crowd-Funding Smashes Record|date=June 2015}}</ref>
Pepper kept a blog, ''Hong Kong Focus'', which is now maintained by Hong Kong Free Press.<ref name="appreciation">{{cite news |last1=Burns |first1=John |title=Suzanne Pepper: an appreciation |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2022/07/06/suzanne-pepper-an-appreciation/ |work=Hong Kong Free Press |date=6 July 2022}}</ref>
Pepper was an [[honorary fellow]] of the Chinese University of Hong Kong,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=ABS-CBN News|url=https://www.abs-cbn.com/overseas/03/23/17/china-watches-hong-kong-vote-as-protests-threatened|title=China watches Hong Kong vote as protests threatened|date=23 March 2017}}</ref> and an honorary lifetime member of the [[Foreign Correspondents Club]] of Hong Kong.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Hong Kong Free Press|url=https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/08/18/redefining-everything-press-club-row-offers-glimpse-freedom-speech-chinese-characteristics/|title=Redefining everything: Press Club row offers a glimpse of freedom of speech with Chinese characteristics|date=18 August 2018}}</ref>
Pepper died on 29 June 2022 in Hong Kong, following a short illness.<ref name="hkfp_obituary_pepper">{{cite web|url=https://hongkongfp.com/2022/07/06/remembering-political-scientist-author-and-hkfp-columnist-suzanne-pepper-1939-2022/|title=Obituary: Remembering political scientist, author and HKFP columnist Suzanne Pepper – 1939–2022|first=Tom|last=Grundy|work=[[Hong Kong Free Press]]|date=6 July 2022|access-date=7 July 2022}}</ref>
==Publications== *{{cite book |last=Pepper |first=Suzanne |title=China's Universities: Post-Mao Enrollment Policies and Their Impact on the Structure of Secondary Education: a Research Report |publisher=Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan |date=1984 |isbn=9780892640461 |title-link=}} *{{cite journal |title=China's Special Economic Zones: The Current Rescue Bid for a Faltering Experiment |last=Pepper |first=Suzanne |publisher=Universities Field Staff International|journal=Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars |date=1988 |title-link=Special Economic Zone|doi=10.1080/14672715.1988.10412571}} *{{cite book |last1=Pepper |first1=Suzanne |title=China's Education Reform in the 1980s: policies, issues, and historical perspectives |date=1990 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=1557290202}} *{{cite book|title=The Nationalist Era in China 1927-1949|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=1991|last1=Eastman|first1=Lloyd E|last2=Ch'en|first2=Jerome|last3=Pepper|first3=Suzanne|last4=Slyke|first4=Lyman P|isbn=9780521385916}} *{{cite book|last=Pepper|first=Suzanne|title=Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945-1949|url=https://archive.org/details/civilwarinchina00|url-access=registration|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] Publishers|isbn=9780742573659|date=1999}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=E.|first=Gourlay, Walter|date=October 1979|title=Suzanne Pepper. ''Civil War in China: The Political Struggle, 1945–1949''. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1978. Pp. xxi, 472. $18.50|journal=The American Historical Review|language=en|volume=84|issue=4|doi=10.1086/ahr/84.4.1126|issn=1937-5239}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Levine|first=Steven I.|date=March 1979|title=Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945–1949. By Suzanne Pepper. [Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1978. 472 pp. £13·00.]|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/civil-war-in-china-the-political-struggle-19451949-by-suzanne-pepper-berkeley-los-angeles-and-london-university-of-california-press-1978-472-pp-1300/9ECB8B8C8C5DF2FF42857BABBC8BE1B7|journal=The China Quarterly|language=en|volume=77|pages=134–136|doi=10.1017/S0305741000038996|s2cid=154772491 |issn=1468-2648|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kyoko|first=Tanaka|date=1982|title=Review of Civil War in China: The Political Struggle, 1945-1949., ; The Chinese Revolution and Liberation of the Cities|journal=The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs|volume=7|issue=7|pages=194–198|doi=10.2307/2158834|jstor=2158834}}</ref> *{{cite book|last=Pepper|first=Suzanne|title=Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2000|isbn=9780521778602}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Barry|first=Keenan|date=February 1998|title=Suzanne Pepper. <italic>Radicalism and Education Reform in Twentieth-Century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model</italic>. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1996. Pp. ix, 610. $59.95|journal=The American Historical Review|language=en|volume=103|issue=1|doi=10.1086/ahr/103.1.255|issn=1937-5239}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nambissan|first=Geetha B.|date=1 February 1999|title=III Book Reviews : SUZANNE PEPPER, Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th Century China—The Search for an Ideal Development Model, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1996, x + 610 pp|journal=China Report|language=en|volume=35|issue=1|pages=106–110|doi=10.1177/000944559903500108|s2cid=144838019 |issn=0009-4455}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kelly|first1=Donald P.|last2=Liu|first2=Judith|date=May 1998|title=Sowing the Seeds: Reproduction and Educational Reform in ChinaPower in Education: The Case of Miao University Students and Its Significance for American Culture. Henry T. Trueba , Yali ZouRadicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model. Suzanne PepperTeacher Education in the People's Republic of China. Rhea A. Ashmore , Zhen Cao|journal=Comparative Education Review|language=en|volume=42|issue=2|pages=184–196|doi=10.1086/447496|s2cid=147611978 |issn=0010-4086}}</ref> *{{cite book|title=Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform|last=Pepper|first=Suzanne|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|date=2008|isbn=9780742508774}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lim|first=Adelyn|date=July 2008|title=Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. Suzanne Pepper|journal=The China Journal|language=en|volume=60|pages=194–195|doi=10.1086/tcj.60.20648014|issn=1324-9347}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ma|first=Ngok|date=1 July 2009|title=Book Review: Suzanne PEPPER, Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008. x + 448pp., with index. {{Text|ISBN}}: 978-0-7425-0877-4 (pbk). Price: US$39.95|journal=China Information|language=en|volume=23|issue=2|pages=344–345|doi=10.1177/0920203X090230020514|s2cid=144421469 |issn=0920-203X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Vickers|first=Edward|date=2009|title=Review of Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform|journal=China Review|volume=9|issue=1|pages=184–188|jstor=23462189}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://suzannepepperhk.wordpress.com/ Hong Kong Focus] – Pepper's blog, now maintained by ''Hong Kong Free Press''
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