Liang Sicheng, as his good friend, named him Fei Zhengqing, with Fei, Zheng and Qing corresponding to Fairbank, John and King respectively, which means that a person named Fei is honest and clean.
Fei Zhengqing is a tenured professor at Harvard University, a famous historian, the most prestigious China observer in the United States, a leading figure in the field of modern and contemporary history of China in the United States, the "No.1 China Hand" and the founder of the East Asian Studies Center of Harvard. During his lifetime, he served as vice chairman of the American Far East Association, chairman of the Asian Association, chairman of the Historical Society, and chairman of the East Asian Research Council.
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From p>1931 to 1936, Fei Zhengqing gained a lot from his two years of research at Oxford University. He took modern China as the research theme and the history of Sino-US diplomacy and institutions as a new perspective. His doctoral thesis explored the development history of Sino-US relations from the above three aspects, which broke through the limitations of traditional Sinology and was of considerable innovative significance.
Fei Zhengqing thinks that the study of China should not be limited to the western materials, but also rely on the local resources in China to examine China's views, which naturally requires mastering Chinese and living experience in China. Oxford's research team is very limited, and there are no Chinese courses. Fei Zhengqing applied to Rhodes Scholarship Committee, and Rhodes Scholarship Committee approved his application. Fei Zhengqing became the first Rhodes Scholarship scholar in the Far East.