Dr. Tsou, born on December 10, 1918 in Canton, Guangdong, China, came to the United States in 1941. He received BA from the National Southwest Associated University in Kuming in 1940 and a doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1951. His doctoral thesis deals with the development of the scientific approach in political studies in the United States with particular emphasis on the methodological aspects of two great political scientists, Charles E. Merriam the father of modern political science, and Harold D. Lasswell. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1955 and retired in 1986 as Homer J. Livingston Professor Emeritus. He was also honorary professor at Peking University, Beijing, China.
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Dr. Tsou published a number of books and many articles, including America's Failure in China (1963), China in Crisis (co-ed., 1968), The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms (1986). and Chinese Politics in the Twentieth-Century: Macrohistory and Micro-mechanisms (in Chinese. 1994). America's Failure in China is a piece of solid scholarship providing profound analysis of America's foreign policy. The book was awarded Gordon J. Laing Prize in 1965.
Dr. Tsou also served board director (1971-87), board director emeritus (1987-99), National
Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York City; member, Joint Committee on
Contemporary China, Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned
Societies (1972-74); Principal investigator of research project, "Leadership and Social Change in
China" (1850-89); and on the editorial board, World Politics,, China Quarterly, Asian Survey,
and Modern China. Dr. Tsou received many honors, such as research grantee, Joint committee
on Contemporary China, Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned
Societies (1962-63, 68-69, 75-76); fellow, Rockefeller Foundation (1966-67); fellow, Luce
Foundation (1982-83); and honorary member, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Dr. Tsou is servived by his wife, Yi-Chuang Lu
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