# Suzanne Pepper

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American political scientist (1939–2022)

Suzanne Pepper Born 1939 (1939) Died June 29, 2022(2022-06-29) (aged 82–83) Citizenship American Education University of California, Berkeley (PhD) Occupations Political scientist, journalist

**Suzanne Pepper** (1939 – 29 June 2022[1]) was a Hong Kong–based [American](/source/American_literature) [political scientist](/source/Political_scientist) and journalist. She was editor of the [Chinese University of Hong Kong](/source/Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong)'s *China Review* from 1995 to 1996.[2]

## Biography

Pepper left the United States for [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong) in the 1960s to continue [Chinese language](/source/Chinese_language) studies that she had begun at the University of California at Berkeley. There she met fellow languages student [VG Kulkarni](/source/VG_Kulkarni), an [Indian Army](/source/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.[1][3]

Pepper earned a PhD in [political science](/source/Political_science) from [University of California at Berkeley](/source/University_of_California_at_Berkeley) in 1972.[1] 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](/source/Hong_Kong_Free_Press)*.[4]

Pepper kept a blog, *Hong Kong Focus*, which is now maintained by Hong Kong Free Press.[5]

Pepper was an [honorary fellow](/source/Honorary_fellow) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong,[6] and an honorary lifetime member of the [Foreign Correspondents Club](/source/Foreign_Correspondents_Club) of Hong Kong.[7]

Pepper died on 29 June 2022 in Hong Kong, following a short illness.[1]

## Publications

- Pepper, Suzanne (1984). *China's Universities: Post-Mao Enrollment Policies and Their Impact on the Structure of Secondary Education: a Research Report*. Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780892640461](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780892640461).

- Pepper, Suzanne (1988). ["China's Special Economic Zones: The Current Rescue Bid for a Faltering Experiment"](/source/Special_Economic_Zone). *Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars*. Universities Field Staff International. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1080/14672715.1988.10412571](https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14672715.1988.10412571).

- Pepper, Suzanne (1990). *China's Education Reform in the 1980s: policies, issues, and historical perspectives*. University of California Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1557290202](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1557290202).

- Eastman, Lloyd E; Ch'en, Jerome; Pepper, Suzanne; Slyke, Lyman P (1991). *The Nationalist Era in China 1927-1949*. [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780521385916](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521385916).

- Pepper, Suzanne (1999). [*Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945-1949*](https://archive.org/details/civilwarinchina00). [Rowman & Littlefield](/source/Rowman_%26_Littlefield) Publishers. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780742573659](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780742573659).[8][9][10]

- Pepper, Suzanne (2000). *Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model*. Cambridge University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780521778602](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521778602).[11][12][13]

- Pepper, Suzanne (2008). *Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform*. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780742508774](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780742508774).[14][15][16]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-hkfp_obituary_pepper_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-hkfp_obituary_pepper_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-hkfp_obituary_pepper_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-hkfp_obituary_pepper_1-3) Grundy, Tom (6 July 2022). ["Obituary: Remembering political scientist, author and HKFP columnist Suzanne Pepper – 1939–2022"](https://hongkongfp.com/2022/07/06/remembering-political-scientist-author-and-hkfp-columnist-suzanne-pepper-1939-2022/). *[Hong Kong Free Press](/source/Hong_Kong_Free_Press)*. Retrieved 7 July 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Search"](https://www.chineseupress.com/index.php?route=product/search&advanced=true&search_author=Pepper). *The Chinese University Press*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Stargardt, Julian (2014). ["A Man of his Words"](https://web.archive.org/web/20141227083637/https://www.asiaasset.com/aam/2014-12/1214_obituary.aspx&gl=hk&client=firefox-b). *Asia Asset Management*. Archived from [the original](https://www.asiaasset.com/aam/2014-12/1214_obituary.aspx&gl=hk&client=firefox-b) on 2014-12-27.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Hong Kong Free Press Crowd-Funding Smashes Record"](http://hongwrong.com/hong-kong-free-press-crowd-funding/). *Hong Kong Free Press*. June 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-appreciation_5-0)** Burns, John (6 July 2022). ["Suzanne Pepper: an appreciation"](https://hongkongfp.com/2022/07/06/suzanne-pepper-an-appreciation/). *Hong Kong Free Press*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["China watches Hong Kong vote as protests threatened"](https://www.abs-cbn.com/overseas/03/23/17/china-watches-hong-kong-vote-as-protests-threatened). *ABS-CBN News*. 23 March 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Redefining everything: Press Club row offers a glimpse of freedom of speech with Chinese characteristics"](https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/08/18/redefining-everything-press-club-row-offers-glimpse-freedom-speech-chinese-characteristics/). *Hong Kong Free Press*. 18 August 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** E., Gourlay, Walter (October 1979). "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". *The American Historical Review*. **84** (4). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1086/ahr/84.4.1126](https://doi.org/10.1086%2Fahr%2F84.4.1126). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [1937-5239](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1937-5239).{{[cite journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal)}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Levine, Steven I. (March 1979). ["Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945–1949. By Suzanne Pepper. \[Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1978. 472 pp. £13·00.\]"](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). *The China Quarterly*. **77**: 134–136. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/S0305741000038996](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0305741000038996). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [1468-2648](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1468-2648). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [154772491](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154772491).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Kyoko, Tanaka (1982). "Review of Civil War in China: The Political Struggle, 1945-1949., ; The Chinese Revolution and Liberation of the Cities". *The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs*. **7** (7): 194–198. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/2158834](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2158834). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [2158834](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2158834).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Barry, Keenan (February 1998). "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". *The American Historical Review*. **103** (1). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1086/ahr/103.1.255](https://doi.org/10.1086%2Fahr%2F103.1.255). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [1937-5239](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1937-5239).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** Nambissan, Geetha B. (1 February 1999). "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". *China Report*. **35** (1): 106–110. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1177/000944559903500108](https://doi.org/10.1177%2F000944559903500108). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0009-4455](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0009-4455). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [144838019](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144838019).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Kelly, Donald P.; Liu, Judith (May 1998). "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". *Comparative Education Review*. **42** (2): 184–196. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1086/447496](https://doi.org/10.1086%2F447496). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0010-4086](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0010-4086). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [147611978](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:147611978).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** Lim, Adelyn (July 2008). "Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. Suzanne Pepper". *The China Journal*. **60**: 194–195. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1086/tcj.60.20648014](https://doi.org/10.1086%2Ftcj.60.20648014). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [1324-9347](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1324-9347).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-15)** Ma, Ngok (1 July 2009). "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. ISBN: 978-0-7425-0877-4 (pbk). Price: US$39.95". *China Information*. **23** (2): 344–345. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1177/0920203X090230020514](https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0920203X090230020514). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0920-203X](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0920-203X). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [144421469](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144421469).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-16)** Vickers, Edward (2009). "Review of Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform". *China Review*. **9** (1): 184–188. [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [23462189](https://www.jstor.org/stable/23462189).

## External links

- [Hong Kong Focus](https://suzannepepperhk.wordpress.com/) – Pepper's blog, now maintained by *Hong Kong Free Press*

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