Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsu (1923- October 24, 2005)(徐中約) was a sinologist, a scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history, and an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Born in Shanghai in 1923, he studied at Yenching University in Beijing, and at 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 1955-1958 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.^[1][2][3] 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sinology is the study of China, which usually requires a foreign scholar to have command of the Chinese language. ... History studies the past in human terms. ... The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located in Santa Barbara County, California. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Yenching University was a notable university in Peking (present-day Beijing) in China. ... Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: BÄ›ijÄ«ng; IPA: ;  ), a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Washington Avenue Bridge at night The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, almost always abbreviated U of M, and sometimes referred to as The U by locals, is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1636,[2] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... The Fulbright Program is program of educational grants (Fulbright Fellowships) sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. ... Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the alveoli (microscopic air-filled sacs of the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere) become inflamed and flooded with fluid. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Tribute

According to Jonathan Spence in the Preface to the Chinese translation of his The Search for Modern China, the "two most prominent previous (to The Search for Modern China) English-language surveys" (of modern Chinese history) were those "by John King Fairbank in the 1960s and by Immanuel Hsu in the 1970s". Spence acknowledged that he had learnt much from these two scholars. ^[4] Jonathan D. Spence (August 11, 1936– ) is a British-born historian, specialising in Chinese history. ... John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was among the most renowned American scholars of East Asia in the twentieth century. ...

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Publications

• The Rise of Modern China, Oxford University Press (First edition, 1970; sixth edition, 1999).
• 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. (Publisher's Catalogue)