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Sinologist and historian
Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsu
(
Chinese
:
徐中約
, 1923 ? October 24, 2005) was a
sinologist
, a scholar of modern
Chinese intellectual
and diplomatic history, and a professor of
history
at the
University of California at Santa Barbara
.
Biography
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Born in
Shanghai
in 1923, he studied at
Yenching University
in
Beijing
, and the
University of Minnesota
. He held a Harvard-Yenching Fellowship at
Harvard University
from 1950 to 1954.
After receiving his doctorate from Harvard, he spent the years 1955?58 as a Research Fellow at Harvard's
East Asian Research Center
. He taught modern Chinese history at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1959 until his retirement in 1991, serving as Chair of the History department from 1970 to 1972.
He was a
Guggenheim Fellow
in 1962?1963, as well as a
Fulbright Fellow
. His most widely read book is
The Rise of Modern China
, a survey of Chinese history from 1600 to the present, and a standard textbook.
He died of complications from
pneumonia
on October 24, 2005.
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Publications
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- The Rise of Modern China
, Oxford University Press (First edition, 1970; sixth edition, 2000).
- Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period
- China's entry into the Family of Nations: The Diplomatic Phase, 1858?1880
- The Ili Crisis: A Study of Sino-Russian Diplomacy, 1871?1881
- China Without Mao: The Search for a New Order, Oxford University Press, 1983.
- Chapter on
Late Ch’ing foreign relations, 1866?1905
in
The Cambridge History of China
, Volume 11:
Late Ch'ing, 1800?1911
, edited by
John K. Fairbank
and
Kwang-Ching Liu
, Cambridge University Press.
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