"Joseph W. Esherick (Chinese name: simplified Chinese: \u5468\u9521\u745E; traditional Chinese: \u5468\u932B\u745E; pinyin: Zh\u014Du X\u012Bru\u00EC, born 1942) is an emeritus professor of modern Chinese history at University of California, San Diego. He is the holder of the Hwei-chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies. Esherick is a graduate of Harvard College (1964, summa cum laude). He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley (1971), under the supervision of Joseph R."@en . "Historian" . "Esherick, Joseph"@en .