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Chinese writers and writings were extraordinary." They recalled that Teng once reflected, "Just as lively fish without water would die, so a research scholar without access to books could perish." They added, after noting Teng's scholarship, that he would be "most fondly remembered, not for his numerous publications, but for his legendary culinary prowess. He brought to the art of cooking the same dedication, the same striving for perfection, that characterized his scholarship."
171:, after being struck by a car. Teng was trained in China in both the traditional skills of the Confucian scholar and contemporary historical attitudes and techniques. When he came to the United States in 1937, he became a member of the founding generation of American China studies. He wrote not only specialized monographs and bibliographical tools for academics but also such broad studies for introductory students as
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of the mid-19th century. In 1938, he entered the
Harvard University Graduate School and received his Ph.D. in history in 1942. During these years, John Fairbank attracted him from a traditional sinological focus to studies of modern Chinese history and diplomacy. He and Fairbank teamed on a series of
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Teng was the author or collaborated on some twenty books, more than fifty articles in journals, and too many reviews to list here. At
Indiana University he focused on Nineteenth Century rebellions in China, but his publications ranged from a study of the Chinese examination system, Confucian family
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These broad historical studies rested on firm bibliographical control. In their "Indiana
University Faculty Memorial Resolution", after Teng's death, two of his colleagues commented that "More than an accomplished historian, he was a consummate bibliographer whose range and depth of knowledge of
245:(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943). After the war, Teng returned briefly to China. He spent the academic year 1949–1950 at Harvard and at the end of the year joined the Department of History at Indiana University.
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225:(Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1943), Teng turned his attention to biography and eventually contributed thirty-three articles, most of them dealing with the
193:(now Beijing), where he spent nearly a decade first as student, then as instructor. There he came under the teaching and influence of American trained historians such as
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erupted in 1937, Teng joined the staff of the
Library of Congress in Washington as Assistant Compiler in the Orientalia Collection. At the invitation of his classmate,
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which exploited the newly published archives to explain the structure of the Qing dynasty's initial interaction with the west.
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Minutes April 18, 1989 Memorial Resolution UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR EMERITUS SSU-YU TENG (August 12, 1906 - April 5, 1988)
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Nanking in 1842, and the historiography of the Qing and Ming periods. To these he added items in
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Protest and Crime in China: A Bibliography of Secret
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Runcheng Chen, "Deng Siyu (Teng Ssu-Yu) and the Development of American Sinology after World War II",
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Runcheng Chen, "Deng Siyu (Teng Ssu-Yu) and the Development of American Sinology after World War II",
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