Tsien Tsuen-hsuin
Chinese-American sinologist and librarian (1910–2015) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tsien Tsuen-hsuin (Chinese: 錢存訓; pinyin: Qián Cúnxùn; 11 January 1910 – 9 April 2015), also known as T.H. Tsien, was a Chinese-American bibliographer, librarian, and sinologist who served as a professor of Chinese literature and library science at the University of Chicago, and was also curator of its East Asian Library from 1949 to 1978. He is known for studies of the history of the Chinese book, Chinese bibliography, paleography, and science and technology, especially the history of paper and printing in China, notably Paper and Printing, Volume 5 Pt 1 of British biochemist and sinologist Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China.[1][2] He is also known for risking his life to smuggle tens of thousands of rare books outside of Japanese-occupied China during World War II.[3]
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錢存訓 | |||||||||||||||||
Born | (1910-01-11)11 January 1910 | ||||||||||||||||
Died | 9 April 2015(2015-04-09) (aged 105) Chicago, Illinois, United States | ||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Chinese | ||||||||||||||||
Citizenship | American | ||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Nanking (BA) University of Chicago (MA, PhD) | ||||||||||||||||
Spouse |
Hsu Wen-ching
(m. 1936; died 2008) | ||||||||||||||||
Children | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
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Fields | Chinese bibliography, Library science, history | ||||||||||||||||
Institutions | University of Chicago (1947–78) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 錢存訓 | ||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 钱存训 | ||||||||||||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Qián Cúnxùn | ||||||||||||||||
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