Lowell Dittmer

Lowell Dittmer (traditional Chinese: 羅德明, simplified Chinese: 罗德明, 1942 – April 15, 2024 ) was an author and professor at University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the Political Science Department from 1978 until his retirement in 2022. He served as faculty chair of the Center for Chinese Studies (CSS) under the Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) from 1979 to 1983, and editor for Asian Survey between the years of 1990 and 2019.

Biography Alma Lowell Dittmer was born in 1942, to Veda and Alma Dittmer, the latter of whom he would be named after. Initially born into a Mormon family, Dittmer would begin to describe himself as atheist or agnostic following a church-sponsored mission to Switzerland. and his Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1971.

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