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Chinese born American investor and philanthropist Cyrus Tang Died at 88
Cyrus Tang (Chinese: 唐仲英; pinyin: Táng Zhòngyīng; born 1930 in Suzhou, China) is a Chinese-born American businessman and philanthropist who has holdings in steel, pharmaceutical and furniture.
He arrived in the United States in 1950 from Hong Kong. He studied at Widener University and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
He has donated $150 million to three foundations. His primary philanthropic projects include over 10,000 scholarships to Chinese students; hundreds of schools and hospitals in China; a U.S.-China institute at the RAND Corporation; the Tang Center for Herbal Medicine Research at the University of Chicago and grants for research to the Asian Pacific American Legal Center. In 2015, the Field Museum of Natural History opened the Cyrus Tang Hall of China.