Hung, William, 1893-1980

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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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creatorOf Hung, William, 1893-1980. Office files of The American Poetry Review, 1972. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
creatorOf Hung, William, 1893-1980. Papers of William Hung (1893-1980) 1915-1996. Harvard University, Harvard-Yenching Library
referencedIn Woodbridge Bingham Papers, 1876-1986 Bancroft Library
referencedIn Carl Tilden Keller collection concerning Sir Aurel Stein, 1922-1945. Houghton Library
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correspondedWith Keller, Carl Tilden, 1872-1955 person
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