Tse-tsung Chow Papers
Scope and Contents
The Tse-tsung Chow (周策縱) Papers provide a broad overview of Prof. Chow’s career and achievements as a renowned scholar, teacher, poet and writer. The Papers contain abundant correspondence from his friends and students, scholars, and different publishers discussing with him on various subject matters such as personal business, research work, poetry, conferences, and other work activities. The majority of the manuscripts of essays and poems as well as photocopies of articles on poetry, Chinese literature and history in the collection were written by Prof. Chow. Some of the Chinese paintings and Chinese calligraphy were given to him by his friends, but the stone seals were carved by him. The overall arrangement of the collection was provided by the archivist, as were the titles of some of the folders. The majority of the original English folder titles and all Chinese folder titles used by Prof. Chow were adopted with minor revision. Correspondence is arranged by the last names of the correspondents or topical sequence. Some incoming and outgoing letters were pulled from their original folders and filed in folders of individual correspondents created by Prof. Chow. Oversize materials including maps and boxes of stone seals and memorabilia were put in OS File. Chinese paintings and Chinese calligraphy were pulled and catalogued.
Dates
- 1922-2007, undated
Creator
- Chow, Tse-tsung, 1916-2007 (Person)
Language of Materials
English, Chinese
Biography
- Full name
- Tse-tsung Chow (周策縱)
- Birth date
- January 7, 1916 in Kiyang County (祁陽), Hunan, China
- Parents
- Peng-chu Chow (周鵬翥 ) , Ai-ku Tsou (鄒愛姑)
- Siblings
- Yu-lan (郁蘭), Hsiao-chin (小琴), Tse-heng (策橫), Tse- ting (策定), Tse-chun, (策群), Ling-te (令德), Tse-chi (策奇), Tse-chiang (策強), Tse-chuan (策權)
- Marital Status
- Married to Nancy Nan-hua Wu (吳南華)
- Children
- Ling-lan Lena (聆蘭), Chin-ni Genie (琴霓)
Professor Chow’s achievements and works in Chinese literary theory and criticism, Chinese literature, poetry and history are well documented in his essays and correspondence with his students and other scholars. In his career life, Prof. Chow had extensively collected journal and newspaper articles on Chinese literature, history, culture, philosophy and politics written by him and other scholars, and he filed copies of some of these articles and his manuscripts with his correspondence. In the correspondence files, he kept photocopies of his outgoing letters with the incoming letters together. In this collection, Prof. Chow’s interest and achievements in Chinese calligraphy and seal carving are also reflected in his manuscripts and stone seals.
Education
- 1942
- B.A. Central University of Political Sciences, Chungking, China
- 1950
- M.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- 1955
- Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Career
- 1944
- Dean, Chungking College of Public Administration, Chongqing, China
- 1954-1955
- Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, USA
- 1956-1960
- Research Fellow, Center for East Asian Studies, Harvard University, USA
- 1958-1959
- Research Associate, Columbia University, USA
- 1961-1963
- Research Associate, Harvard University, USA
- 1963
- Visiting Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- 1964-1965
- Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- 1966- 1994
- Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- 1973-1979
- Chairman, Department of East Asian Languages & Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- 1981-1982
- Visiting Chair Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 1987-1988
- Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore
- 1988
- Visiting Professor, Stanford University
- 1994
- Retired from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Honours
- 1946
- Medal of Honor for Public Service, China
- 1966-1967
- Fellow of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- after 1967
- Honorary President of the Island Society, Singapore
- 1972-1973
- Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies
- 1982
- Award Fellow, Distinguished Scholar Exchange Program between the USA and China
- 1997
- Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, Hong Kong Baptist University
Major Publications
- 1958 Election Initiative, Referendum, and Recall: Charter Provisions in Michigan Home Rule Cities
- 1960 The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China
- 1961 海燕
- 1963 Research Guide to “The May Fourth Movement”
- 1964 續梁啟超苦痛中的小玩意：兼論對聯與集句
- 1968 Wen-lin: Studies in the Chinese Humanities
- 1969 “The Broken Ax” -- A Study of the Book of Poetry
- 1971 失群的鳥 = Stray Birds
- 1971 螢 = Firefly
- 1972 論王國維人間詞 = On Wang Kuo-wei’s Tz’u Poetry
- 1972 麥氏漢英大字典新索引, "衷"字七筆檢字法 = A New Index to “Mathews’ Chinese-English Dictionary”, According to a New Method of Arranging Chinese Characters, with a Discussion of the History of Various Methods
- 1980 Report on the First International Conference on the “Dream of the Red Chamber”, June 16-20, 1980
- 1983 Studies of the Dream of the Red Chamber
- 1986 古巫醫與 “六詩”考：中國浪漫文學源 = Ancient Chinese Shamanistic Medicine and the “Six Kinds of Poetry”: A Study of the Origin of China’s Romantic Literature
- 1987 Grand View of the Red Chamber Dream
- 1991 白玉詞
- 1991 梅花詩
- 1991 胡適與近代中國
- 1994 周林[Qin]甫支八脩家乘林
- 1997 棄園文粹
- 2000 紅樓夢案：棄園紅學論文集
- 2004 白馬社新詩選 (艾山、周策縱等合編)
- 2005 周策縱自選集
- 2005 紅樓夢案：周策縱論紅樓夢
- 2006 周策縱舊詩存
Extent
40 Linear Feet (69 boxes (57 document cases, 8 archival carton boxes, 1 half-size document case, 1 textile storage box, 1 plastic and 1 wooden boxes))
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The materials for this collection were received by the Special Collections & Archives in October 2004, January 2005, June 2007, September 2010, and August 2011.
Processing Information
In the Scope and Contents description, the notation “folder 2-5” means box 2, folder 5.
Creator
- Chow, Tse-tsung, 1916-2007 (Person)
- Author
- Irene Wong, Lily Ng, Joey Cheng, Alice Yue
- Date
- October 15, 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Multiple languages
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- April 21, 2017: Revised
Repository Details
Part of the HKBU Special Collections Repository
Special Collections & Archives
AML 405, L4, Au Shue Hung Memorial Library,
Hong Kong Baptist University
34 Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong
(852) 3411-5937
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