Hung, William, 1893-1980

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Birth 1893
Death 1980
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Mr. William Hung was born on Oct. 27, 1893 in Fuzhou, China. In 1915, he went to Ohio Wesleyan in Delaware, Ohio to study and completed his master's degree in history at Columbia University in 1919. In 1923, he returned to China as a professor of history at Yenching University in Beijing, and then, as Dean of the College of Art and Sciences in Yenching. In 1946 he came back to the US, taught at Harvard University and served with Harvard-Yenching Institute under whose auspices he edited the renowned Harvard-Yenching Institute Sinological Index Series. Mr. Hung died in 1980.

From the description of Papers of William Hung (1893-1980) 1915-1996. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 657053766

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