Edgar Chi-ho Tang (or Tang Chi-ho, C.H. Tang, Tang Jihe; ), (born 1902, date of death unknown), was an influential Chinese writer, journalist and educator.
Early life and education
Tang was born in 1902 and his
ancestral hometown was
Jiujiang,
Jiangxi Province
Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hi ...
. From 1913 to 1918 Tang studied at Saint John's School (a
middle school) in Jiujiang. From 1918 to 1923 Tang studied at
Boone University
Huachung University () was a Christian university in Wuhan, in China's Yangtze valley, originally called Boone University, was founded by the union of several Christian universities in 1924 and renamed Huachung in 1929. The university expanded unti ...
() in
Wuchang (current
Wuhan),
Hubei Province, and graduated with BA.
Tang studied at the
University of Missouri, and obtained BA and MA (in 1927) in journalism. Tang shortly studied
public law
Public law is the part of law that governs relations between legal persons and a government, between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, as well as relationships between persons that are of direct ...
at the
Columbia University Law School
Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the Law school in the United States, law school of Columbia University, a Private university, private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestig ...
, but transferred to
Harvard University. Tang obtained master's degree in 1929 and doctorate in 1932, both from Harvard.
Career
From 1923 to 1925, Tang taught at Saint John's School and also was a reporter for a
news agency in Shanghai. In 1925 Tang was sent to the United States by the Jiangxi Provincial Government. From 1927 to 1932 Tang also worked for
Harvard University Library. In 1930 Tang lectured
Chinese culture at
Boston University.
After returning China Tang was appointed professor of politics at the
National Central University (now
Nanjing University). From 1940 to 1945 Tang was the President of
Cheeloo University in
Shandong Province
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizatio ...
. In June 1946 Tang became the
President of
National Yingshi University (a root of what is now
Zhejiang University). In June 1948 Tang was resigned from the university president position due to the
student strike.
Although Tang was a well known scholar in China before 1949, information about his later life is rarely seen in current
mainland Chinese sources.
Works by Tang
*《中国的宪政问题》 (''Problems of China's Constitution and Politics'')
*《中国审查员的建立》 (''The Setup of Examinant System in China'')
*《中国的对外关系－著作文献提要》 (''China's Foreign Relations - Summary of Literature'')
References
External links
Ricci Roundtable on the History of Christianity in China - Tang , Edgar Chi-ho 湯吉禾Ricci Roundtable on the History of Christianity in China - Cheeloo University 齊魯大學
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1902 births
Year of death missing
Educators from Jiangxi
Academic staff of Zhejiang University
People from Jiujiang
Columbia Law School alumni
Harvard University alumni
University of Missouri alumni
20th-century Chinese journalists
Writers from Jiangxi
Academic staff of Nanjing University
Academic staff of Cheeloo University