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Obituaries
Joseph F. Fletcher Jr. Dies; Historian of Asia at Harvard
16 June 1984
Joseph F. Fletcher Jr., a professor of Chinese and central Asian history at Harvard University, died of cancer Thursday night at the university's Stillman Infirmary. He was 49 years old and lived in Cambridge, Mass.
As a specialist in central Asia and fluent in more than a dozen languages, Mr. Fletcher was named a full professor in 1972. He had joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor in 1966.
Last year Mr. Fletcher received the Levinson Teaching Prize, an annual award by the university to the best teacher of undergraduates.
Mr. Fletcher is survived by his father, Joseph F. Fletcher Sr., and his mother, Forrest, of Belmont, Mass.; a son, Edward Sears Fletcher, and a sister, Jane Geniesse, of Washington.
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Joseph Fletcher (historian)
Joseph F. Fletcher, Jr., usually referred to simply as Joseph Fletcher (1934 – 1984) was an American historian of China and Central Asia, a professor at East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department of Harvard University. His main areas of research included interaction between the Islamic and Chinese worlds, Manchu and Mongol studies.
Joseph Fletcher contributed several chapters ("Ch'ing Inner Asia, c. 1800", and others) to vol. 10 of The Cambridge History of China:
•Fletcher, Joseph F. (1978), "Ch'ing Inner Asia", in Twitchett, Denis Crispin; Fairbank, John King, The Cambridge history of China, Volume 10, Part 1, Cambridge University Press, pp. 35–106, ISBN 0-521-21447-5
Joseph Fletcher's posthumously published work, "The Naqshbandiyya in Northwest China" (Variorum, 1995), remains one of the main English-languages sources on the introduction of Sufism into China, and is extensively cited by practically all books in English on Islam in China published since then.
•The Joseph Fletcher Memorial Lecture: biography and bibliography.
•Joseph Fletcher Bibliography
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