K. C. Hsiao

1897 –

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Who is K. C. Hsiao?

K. C. Hsiao was a Chinese historian and political scientist who taught literature and history in the United States for nineteen years.

Hsiao first travelled to the United States in 1920, remaining there for six years and gaining a PhD from Cornell University in 1926. He returned to China and was professor of political science at Yenching University from 1930 to 1932, then at Tsinghua University from 1932 to 1937. With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, he left to teach at Sichuan University and Kwang Hua University. Frustrated by the shortage of research materials produced by the Chinese Civil War, he went to teach at National Taiwan University in 1949, and continued to the United States later that year. He taught at the University of Washingtoninitially as a visiting professor, and from 1959 as a tenured professor – from 1949 to 1968.

Hsiao hoped that the twentieth century would come to embody 'liberal socialism', thereby reconciling the political movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Born
Nov 29, 1897
China
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • China
Education
  • Cornell University
Lived in
  • China

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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