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Title: Immanuel Hsu papers
Identifier/Call Number: UArch FacP 70
Language of Material:
English
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Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
15 Linear Feet;
(12 cartons)
Creator:
Hsu, Immanuel
Date (inclusive): 1985-2013
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.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
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.
Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsü (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
The collection is open for research.
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.
Donation from Immanuel Hsu's son, Vadim Hsu, in 2015.
[Identification of Item], Immanuel Hsu papers, UArch FacP 70. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
China -- History
China -- Description and travel
Manuscripts
Drafts (documents)
Page proofs
Correspondence
Lectures
Essays
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
Slides (photographs)