Hsu, (Immanuel) papers, 1985-2013

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Summary

Title:
Immanuel Hsu papers
Dates:
1985-2013
Creators:
Hsu, Immanuel
Abstract:
Papers of Immanuel Hsu, former Department Chair and professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The papers include notes, writings, correspondence, and other related materials regarding Immaneul Hsu's research into modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history.
Extent:
15 Linear Feet; (12 cartons)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Immanuel Hsu papers, UArch FacP 70. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains files generated by Immanuel Hsu in the writing of several books - The Rise of Modern China, China Without Mao: The Search for a New Order, and The Ili Crisis: A Study of Sino-Russian Diplomacy, 1871–1881 - as well as various lectures and essays on modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history. Materials include correspondence, drafts and proofs, reference materials, and travel images related to Hsu's academic research.

Biographical / historical:

Immanuel Chung-Yueh HsΓΌ (Chinese: 徐中約, 1923 – October 24, 2005) was a sinologist, a scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history, and a professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Born in Shanghai in 1923, he studied at Yenching University in Beijing, and the University of Minnesota. He held a Harvard-Yenching Fellowship at Harvard University from 1950 to 1954. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard, he spent the years 1955–1958 as a Research Fellow at Harvard's East Asian Research Center. He taught modern Chinese history at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1959 until his retirement in 1991, serving as Chair of the History department from 1970 to 1972. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1962–1963, as well as a Fulbright Fellow. His most widely read book is The Rise of Modern China, a survey of Chinese history from 1600 to the present, and a standard textbook.

Source: Wikipedia, viewed March, 2023

Acquisition information:
Donation from Immanuel Hsu's son, Vadim Hsu, in 2015.
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into five series: Series 1. Manuscripts and lectures; Series 2. Manuscripts and galleys; Series 3. Writings and The Ili Crisis; Series 4. Kodak Slides; and Series 5. Page Proofs.

Physical location:
Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding Aid prepared by Rebecca Vasquez, 2023.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace.

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Immanuel Hsu papers, UArch FacP 70. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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