Tong Tekong

Tekong Tong
Born	23 August 1920 Anhui, Republic of China
Died	26 October 2009 (aged 89) San Francisco, California, United States of America
Alma mater	Nanjing University Columbia 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
Spouse(s)	Wu Zhaowen

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.^[1]

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

1. Society of Chinese Oral History