- Tsiang Tingfu
Tsiang Tingfu (Jiang Tingfu, 蔣廷黻, 17 February 1895 - 9 October 1965), Chinese historian and diplomat. Tsiang was born in
Shaoyang inHunan province. In 1911, he was sent to study in the United States, where he attended the Park Academy,Oberlin College andColumbia University . After obtaining a Ph.D. in history at Columbia, he returned to China in 1923, where he first took up a position atNankai University and then atTsinghua University . At Tsinghua, he became the head of the History Department, where edited and published a number of works on Chinese history and published the English-language journal "Chinese Social and Political Science Review". During his tenure at Tsinghua, he mentored a number of historians in the study ofQing history, includingJohn K. Fairbank .Following mounting tensions in China's relations with
Japan , Tsiang left academia in 1935 and joined the Chinese Nationalist government, which he served in many different capacities throughout the Sino-Japanese War. In 1945, Tsiang became thePermanent Representative of China to theUnited Nations , and he subsequently also served as the ambassador of China to the United States. Following the establishment of thePeople's Republic of China on the Chinese mainland, Tsiang defended the exclusive right of the Taiwan-based Republic of China to represent China in the United Nations and in theSecurity Council . He died inNew York City in 1965.Links
* [http://www.empireclubfoundation.com/details.asp?SpeechID=764&FT=yes Address by Tsiang Tingfu to The Empire Club of Canada, 27 April 1961]
* [http://www.bellhowell.infolearning.com/products_umi/descriptions/Tsiang-Diaries-498.shtml Description of the Tsiang Diaries]
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