Tsou Tang

Tsou Tang (Chinese: 鄒讜; 18 December 1918 – 7 August 1999) was a Chinese-American political scientist.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Tsou.

Tsou Tang was born in Guangdong on 18 December 1918. His father was the academic Zou Lu. Tsou worked for the Central Bank of China a year after graduation from Southwest Associated University.[1] In 1941, Tsou began graduate study at the University of Chicago, earning his doctorate in 1951. Tsou joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1959. He was named the Homer J. Livingston Professor in Political Science, and retired in 1988.[2] He later lectured at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Utah.[1] Before leaving Chicago, Tsou taught at Peking University as an honorary professor, starting in 1986.[3] He was one of the first foreign academics to be granted membership into the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, bestowed in 1997.[4]

Tsou's first of six books, titled America's Failure in China, 1941-1950, won particular attention from news media and his contemporaries. Hans Morgenthau stated that it was "both history in the grand style and political science at its best."[3] Henry R. Lieberman wrote for The New York Times Book Review, "This is a balanced, scholarly and sobering work that helps set the record clear on United States relations with China from the time of Pearl Harbor to General MacArthur's ill-fated advance to the Yalu in Korea." Dali Yang summarized Tsou's beliefs thus: "His position in America’s Failure in China: 1941-1950 was that the Nationalist government lost to the communists in the Chinese Civil War because the Nationalist government was corrupt and riven by infighting."[2][4] His final writings, a collection of essays, were posthumously published in the journal Modern China in 2000.[5]

Tsou died of heart failure at the age of 80 on 7 August 1999, at the University of Chicago Medical Center.[2][6]

References
  1. Pollard, Vincent Kelly (2000). "Tang Tsou (1918-1999)". China Review International. 7 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1353/cri.2000.0042.
  2. Pace, Eric (16 August 1999). "Prof. Tang Tsou, 80, Authority on Modern China". New York Times. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  3. Schram, Stuart R. (December 1999). "Tsou Tang: A memorial". The China Quarterly. 160: 1057–1059. doi:10.1017/S0305741000001442. JSTOR 656054. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  4. "Expert on modern China Tang Tsou dies at 80". University of Chicago Chronicle. 18 (20). 12 August 1999. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  5. Cui, Zhiyuan (1 April 2000). "Introduction to Tang Tsou's "Interpreting the Revolution in China"". Modern China. 26 (2): 194–204. doi:10.1177/009770040002600204.
  6. David, Andy (12 August 1999). "U. Of C. China Expert Tang Tsou". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
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