Hsu Dau-lin was a Japanese-born Taiwanese legal scholar who made substantial contributions to the study of Tang and Song Law and, especially for new republican states, of Constitutional Law.
17 Facts About Hsu Dau-lin
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Hsu Dau-lin devoted his prime years to the service of China as government official and as diplomat, and spent his later years teaching Chinese legal history in Taiwan, and Chinese literature and philosophy in America.
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Hsu Dau-lin was born on December 4,1907, in Tokyo, Japan.
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Hsu Dau-lin's father was Xu Shuzheng, a student of military science in Tokyo at the time.
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Hsu Dau-lin's siblings included his eldest brother Hsu Shen-chiao and a younger sister, Hsu Ying.
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The family returned to China in 1910, where Hsu received his classical education under the instruction of a private tutor.
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Hsu Dau-lin's family shared a love of kunqu, an old form of Chinese opera, and Hsu played the bamboo flute.
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Hsu Dau-lin graduated in 1931 with a thesis entitled Das Geltungs-problem im Verfassungsrecht, a document that is still used in constitutional law classes in Japan.
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Hsu Dau-lin returned to China in 1932 to take a government post, and became personal secretary to Chiang Kai-shek.
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In 1938, they moved to Rome, where Hsu Dau-lin served as the Charge d'affaires in Italy until 1941.
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Hsu Dau-lin resigned this post in November 1945 in order to formally accuse Feng Yuxiang of his father's assassination, without appearance of political bias.
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Hsu Dau-lin was professor and dean of the Law School at National Tungchi University in Shanghai from 1947 to 1949.
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Hsu Dau-lin served as a professor of law at National Taiwan University from 1954 to 1958, teaching both Chinese and Roman law.
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Hsu Dau-lin met and married Ye Miao-ying "Nancy" in Taiwan.
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In 1962, Hsu Dau-lin immigrated with his wife and two children to the US to take a research faculty position at the University of Washington, joining his former colleague and friend, Hellmut Wilhelm, and his brother-in-law, Li Fang-kuei.
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Hsu Dau-lin left in 1965 to work at Columbia University and Michigan State University, before returning to become a teaching faculty member at the University of Washington in 1970.
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Hsu Dau-lin died suddenly on December 24,1973, in Seattle, Washington.