Tsou Tang was a China-born American political scientist, best known for his book America's Failure in China and studies of contemporary Chinese politics.
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12 Facts About Tsou Tang
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Tsou Tang was on the faculty of University of Chicago from 1959 until his retirement in 1988.
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Tsou Tang's father was the academic and follower of Sun Yat-sen Zou Lu.
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In 1941, Tsou Tang began graduate study at the University of Chicago, earning his doctorate in 1951.
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Tsou Tang taught at Peking University as an honorary professor, starting in 1986.
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Tsou Tang was one of the first foreign academics to be granted membership into the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, bestowed in 1997.
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Tsou Tang accused Chiang Kai-Shek of being both unable and unwilling to “undertake long overdue reforms”, the absence of which drove many Chinese to support the Communists.
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Tsou Tang held that intellectual and academic exchange between China and the West was the only way for both parties to come to a greater understanding of one another.
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Tsou Tang died of heart failure at the age of 80 on 7 August 1999, at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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