Tong Tekong (; 23 August 1920 in

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

province, China - 26 October 2009) was a historian, academic and an author. Tong graduated in

Nanjing University Nanjing University (NJU; ) is a national public research university in Nanjing, Jiangsu. It is a member of C9 League and a Class A Double First Class University designated by the Chinese central government. NJU has two main campuses: the Xian ...

majoring in history, and finished his PhD at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, 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.Society of Chinese Oral History

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

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