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China in My Life: A Historian's Own History

ABSTRACT

An autobiography of a scholar-teacher who devoted his career to the study of Chinese history and the promotion of Asian studies in America.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|8 pages

Childhood

chapter 2|5 pages

High School Years, 1923–1927

chapter 3|8 pages

Higher Education, 1927–1932

chapter 4|17 pages

Kay and I Start Out, 1932–1936

chapter 5|7 pages

Building a Career, 1936–1939

chapter 6|7 pages

Starting Our Family, 1939–1942

chapter 7|6 pages

War Work, 1943–1945

chapter 8|27 pages

Back in China, 1945–1946

chapter 9|3 pages

A Transition Time

chapter 10|13 pages

First Years at Columbia, 1947–1954

chapter 11|21 pages

A Year in Japan and Southeast Asia, 1954–1955

chapter 12|20 pages

India

chapter 13|11 pages

Thailand and Hong Kong

chapter 14|6 pages

Tokyo Again

chapter 15|10 pages

Teaching and Scholarship

chapter 16|28 pages

A Sabbatical in East Asia, 1961–1962

chapter 17|13 pages

Academic, Cultural, and Social Life, 1962–1967

chapter 18|7 pages

Hawaii, Europe, and a Wedding, 1967–1968

chapter 19|16 pages

The Last Years of Teaching, 1968–1976

chapter 20|12 pages

Beginning Retirement, 1976–1979

chapter 21|23 pages

Our Trip Back to China, 1980

chapter 22|9 pages

More Retirement Years, 1980–1983

chapter 23|15 pages

Rich Years, 1984–1986

chapter 24|5 pages

Last Years in Pleasantville, 1987–1989

chapter 25|9 pages

Our New Life in the Quadrangle