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Spouse(s)
  
Wu Zhaowen

Name
  
Tong Tekong

Role
  
Author


Born
  
23 August 1920 (
1920-08-23
)
Anhui, Republic of China

Alma mater
  
Nanjing UniversityColumbia University

Occupation
  
Professor at the Columbia University and City University of New York

Notable work
  
The final seventy years of Qing Dynasty ; Memoir of Li Zongren ; Memoir of Wellington Koo ; Oral Autography of Hu Shih ; Oral History by Zhang Xueliang

Died
  
October 26, 2009, San Francisco, California, United States

Books
  
The third Americans, United States Diplomacy in China, 1844-60

Education
  
Columbia University, Nanjing University

Tong Tekong (Chinese: 唐德剛; pinyin: Táng Dégāng; 23 August 1920 in Anhui province, China - 26 October 2009) was a historian, academic and an author. Tong graduated in Nanjing University majoring in history, and finished his PHD in Columbia University, and later taught Chinese history in Columbia University. Tong also worked as professor in City University of New York for 20 years, and retired in 1991.

Selected works

  • US Diplomacy in China, 1844-1860 (1964)
  • The Memoirs of V. K. Wellington Koo (1977)
  • The Memoirs of Hu Shih (1977)
  • The Memoirs of Li Tsung-jen (1979)
  • The Third Americans: A Select Bibliography on Asians in America with Annotations (1980)
  • An Autobiography: As Told by Hu Shih (1980)
  • Lectures on American History (1982)
  • Random Memories of Hu Shih (1985)

    • References

    Tong Tekong Wikipedia
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