Lowell Dittmer, professor of Chinese Politics and former Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies (1979-1983), died April 15th, 2024. He was a member of the Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley from 1978 until his retirement in 2022. Dittmer served as Editor of Asian Survey from the mid-1990s until 2019. He retired from the editorship after a long and influential career as one of the world’s top experts on Chinese politics and regional Northeast, East, and Southeast Asian affairs. He remained an active scholar and most recently...