Hsu Shu-hsi (; April 3, 1892 – January 14, 1982) was a diplomat of the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

. He represented his country in Canada, Peru and Bolivia.

Biography

Hsu was born in

Swatow Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2020 census (5,391,028 in 2010) and an administrative a ...

, the son and grandson of physicians. After graduating from Shantou Huaying Middle School in 1910, he studied at the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of ...

. He later studied at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

in the United States and received a doctorate. After returning to

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

, he taught at

Yenching University Yenching University () was a Private university, private research university in Beijing, China, from 1919 to 1952. The university was formed out of the merger of four Christian colleges between the years 1915 and 1920. The term "Yenching" come ...

and served as dean of the Department of Political Science, dean of the School of Social Sciences, and dean of the Law School. From 1940, he served as deputy representative of China on the Council of the

League of Nations The League of Nations (LN or LoN; , SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), Paris Peace ...

, and in June 1942, acting director of the Asia and Western Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. With the

Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led Nationalist government, government of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Armed conflict continued intermitt ...

having concluded in 1949, Hsu followed the Nationalist government's retreat to the island of Taiwan, where he successively served as the Ambassador to Peru and Bolivia, plenipotentiary representative of the island's delegation to the United Nations, and Ambassador to Canada since 1956. Hsu died at the age of 89 on January 14, 1982, at his home in

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. He was survived by his wife, Grace Wen-chung Liu—who he married in a ceremony held in 1921 at the

Chongwenmen Chongwenmen (; Manchu: ; Möllendorff: šu be wesihulere duka) was a gate that was part of Beijing's city wall in what is now Dongcheng District. The gate stood in the southeastern part of Beijing's inner city, immediately south of the old Beij ...

and officiated by

John Leighton Stuart John Leighton Stuart (; June 24, 1876 – September 19, 1962) was a missionary educator, the first President of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China. He was a towering figure in U.S.-China relations in the first half o ...

—his three sons: Yuan-yo, Fu-cheng Richard, and Charles Chi-chang, and four grandchildren.

References

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