doctoral_advisor death_place death_date birth_place workplaces field birth_date spouse article_title name alma_mater
yu ying-shih new york city , new york 8 january 2000 ningxiang china county , changsha , hunan , republic of columbia east asian research cambridge university university state university of new york center for macro history 25 june 1918 gayle bates ray huang
 ray huang nankai university university of michigan
ray huang

ray huang -lrb- ; june 25 , 1918 -- january 8 , 2000 -rrb- was a chinese historian and philosopher .
he was an officer in the nationalist army and fought in the burma campaigns .
he earned a ph.d in history from the university of michigan , worked with joseph needham and is a contributor of needham 's `` science and civilisation in china '' .
huang taught in the u.s. , and is best known in his later years for the idea of macro-history .
