施坚雅教授逝世：In memory of G. William Skinner, 1923-2008

尉迟铭珂

第一次发帖就带来不好的消息。我们一起为施坚雅教授默哀！

In memory of G. William Skinner, 1923-2008

October 26, 2008
Dear Colleagues,

It is with great sadness that I write to inform. you that G. William Skinner passed away last night.

During the past months, when it became apparent that he would not recover, Bill devoted much of his energy to ensuring that his work would not be lost. He arranged with Bill Lavely for his research on demography to be transferred to the University of Washington. His GIS datasets and related research projects will be given to Harvard, where they will be located in the Spatial Analysis Project at the Fairbank Center. Lex Berman and I, with advice from Mark Henderson and Bill Lavely,
will do our best to see that his materials are preserved and made available to scholars.

The CHGIS project would not have been possible without Bill's support. Even today his application of spatial analysis to the study of Chinese, Japanese, and French society remains among the most sophisticated research in the field. We are all in his debt.

Yours sincerely,
Peter Bol

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施爱东

沉痛悼念！
非常喜欢施坚雅先生的著述，尤其是他的《中国农村的市场和社会结构》，这本书对我影响非常大。
听到这位本家学长辞世的消息，心里非常难过。

本人

沉痛悼念！
看他的书, 很有模式感, 但的确有创见,

田鼠归来

沉痛哀悼!
新近拜读过施老教授的大著，颇受启发。

抹茶

沉痛哀悼!

miaoxuefeng

为向人类的事业奋斗到最后的伟人致敬！！

匪兵N

施坚雅给我很多启发，主要在对于“空间”的关注，市场理论也好，城市研究也罢，都提醒关注传统的学者，除了流逝的时间，还有被格局化的空间。在思考一个地方社会时，乡土（空间、区域）和传统（时间、历史）同样重要，不可或缺。
沉痛哀悼施坚雅教授！