Lucian Pye, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLucian Pye
American sinologist
Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1921
Date of Death: 05-Sep-2008
Profession: political scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Lucian Pye
- Lucian W.
- Pye (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Bái Luxún; 21 October 1921 – 5 September 2008) was an American political scientist, sinologist and comparative politics expert considered one of the leading China scholars in the United States.
- Educated at Carleton College and Yale University, Pye chose to focus on the characteristics of specific cultures in forming theories of political development of modernization of Third World nations, rather than seeking universal and overarching theories like most political scientists.
- As a result, he became regarded as one of the foremost contemporary practitioners and proponents of the concept of political culture and political psychology.
- Pye was a teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 35 years and served on several Asia-related research and policy organizations.
- He wrote or edited books and served as advisor to Democratic presidential candidates, including John F.
- Kennedy.
- Pye died of pneumonia at age 86.
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