Tong Tekong (; 23 August 1920 in

Anhui Anhui is an inland Provinces of China, province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiang ...

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

Nanjing University Nanjing University (NJU) is a public university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It is affiliated and sponsored by the Ministry of Education. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. The univers ...

majoring in history, and finished his PhD 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 ...

, and later taught Chinese history in Columbia University. Tong also worked as professor in

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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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