Tekong Tong | |
Birth Date: | 23 August 1920 |
Birth Place: | Anhui, Republic of China |
Death Place: | San Francisco, California, United States of America |
Alma Mater: | Nanjing University Columbia University |
Occupation: | Professor at the Columbia University and City University of New York |
Spouse: | Wu Zhaowen |
Notable Works: | The final seventy years of Qing Dynasty ; Memoir of Li Zongren ; Memoir of Wellington Koo ; Oral Autography of Hu Shih ; Oral History by Zhang Xueliang |
Tong Tekong (; 23 August 1920 in Anhui province, China - 26 October 2009) was a historian, academic and an author. Tong graduated in Nanjing University majoring in history, and finished his PhD at Columbia University, and later taught Chinese history in Columbia University. Tong also worked as professor in City University of New York for 20 years, and retired in 1991.[1]