Tsiang Tingfuとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Tsiang Tingfu (Jiang Tingfu, 蔣廷黻, 17 February 1895 - 9 October 1965) was a Chinese historian and diplomat. Tsiang was born in Shaoyang in Hunan province. In 1911, he was sent to study in the United States, where he attended the Park Academy, Oberlin College and Columbia University. After obtaining a Ph.D. in history at Columbia, he returned to China in 1923, where he first took up a position at Nankai University and then at Tsinghua University. At Tsinghua, he became the head of the History Department, where edited and published a number of works on Chinese history and published the English-language journal Chinese Social and Political Science Review. During his tenure at Tsinghua, he mentored a number of historians in the study of Qing history, including John K. Fairbank.