Joshua A. Fogel

What draws me to Joshua A. Fogel is how quietly consequential his work is. A Brooklyn kid out of Columbia who devoted his career to modern China and, specifically, the cultural and political crosscurrents between China and Japan, he occupies a rare scholarly niche that almost no one else can fill. As a translator he also acts as a bridge, carrying ideas across languages so the rest of us can reach them. The Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at York and his 2024 emeritus status speak to a life of patient, rigorous scholarship. I have real admiration for thinkers like him who shun the spotlight yet leave the field permanently richer.

Name (English)

Joshua A. Fogel

Name (Japanese)

ジョシュア・A・フォーゲル

Reading

じょしゅあ・A・ふぉーげる

Born

May 23, 1950 (age 76)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Tiger

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Occupation

historian / sinologist / translator / japanologist

University

Columbia University

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB

Tags

• New York
• historian
• sinologist
• translator

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.