{Further research on his career and achievements in progress}
John Calvin Ferguson (Chinese: 福開森; pinyin: Fú Kāisēn).
Scholar and art historian, government adviser, and founder of the University of Nanking in Nanjing, China.
He was living in Nanjing in 1937, during the second Sino-Japanese War. At some point, he was taken prisoner and confined in a dormitory in the British Embassy. In 1943, he and a daughter, Mary, were released in an exchange. His journey to New York — via Southeast Asia and South America — took a physical toll, and he died in 1945 in Clifton Springs, New York. In addition to the two daughters linked here, he and his wife also had a son, Duncan (1901-1974).
John Calvin Ferguson (Chinese: 福開森; pinyin: Fú Kāisēn).
Scholar and art historian, government adviser, and founder of the University of Nanking in Nanjing, China.
He was living in Nanjing in 1937, during the second Sino-Japanese War. At some point, he was taken prisoner and confined in a dormitory in the British Embassy. In 1943, he and a daughter, Mary, were released in an exchange. His journey to New York — via Southeast Asia and South America — took a physical toll, and he died in 1945 in Clifton Springs, New York. In addition to the two daughters linked here, he and his wife also had a son, Duncan (1901-1974).
{Further research on his career and achievements in progress}
John Calvin Ferguson (Chinese: 福開森; pinyin: Fú Kāisēn).
Scholar and art historian, government adviser, and founder of the University of Nanking in Nanjing, China.
He was living in Nanjing in 1937, during the second Sino-Japanese War. At some point, he was taken prisoner and confined in a dormitory in the British Embassy. In 1943, he and a daughter, Mary, were released in an exchange. His journey to New York — via Southeast Asia and South America — took a physical toll, and he died in 1945 in Clifton Springs, New York. In addition to the two daughters linked here, he and his wife also had a son, Duncan (1901-1974).
John Calvin Ferguson (Chinese: 福開森; pinyin: Fú Kāisēn).
Scholar and art historian, government adviser, and founder of the University of Nanking in Nanjing, China.
He was living in Nanjing in 1937, during the second Sino-Japanese War. At some point, he was taken prisoner and confined in a dormitory in the British Embassy. In 1943, he and a daughter, Mary, were released in an exchange. His journey to New York — via Southeast Asia and South America — took a physical toll, and he died in 1945 in Clifton Springs, New York. In addition to the two daughters linked here, he and his wife also had a son, Duncan (1901-1974).
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