徐中约

徐中约博士（英语：Dr. Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsü，1923年5月6日—2005年10月24日），祖籍浙江宁波，出生于中华民国江苏省上海县，美籍华人，历史学家。与其妻杜乐思博士（Dr. Dolores Menstell Hsü，1930-2019）育有一子Vadim Hsü。

著作有《中国近代史》。

生平

1923年，徐中约出生于上海的一个新教徒家庭。

其兄徐诚斌后来改信天主教，是天主教香港教区首任华人主教。

1946年，毕业于燕京大学。

1954年，获哈佛大学哲学博士，曾任教于美国加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校历史系。

1971年，由圣塔芭芭拉分校数百位教授组成的学术评议会遴选徐中约任“研究讲座”（Faculty Research Lecturer），此乃该校最高的学术荣誉。

1998年，担任香港中文大学伟伦讲座教授。

2005年10月24日，徐因患肺炎去世。

著作

曾著《中国进入国际社会的外交，1858—1888年》（China's Entrance into the Family of Nations: The Diplomatic Phase, 1858–1880）（哈佛，1960）、《伊犁危机：中俄外交研究，1871-1881年》（The Ili crisis: a study of Sino-Russian diplomacy, 1871-1881）（牛津，1965）、《China without Mao: the search for a new order》（牛津，1983）等，还翻译了梁启超的《清代学术概论》（哈佛，1959）。

著作《中国近代史》（The Rise of Modern China），香港中文大学出版社于2002年推出原著第六版之中译本。2008年世界图书出版公司在中国大陆出版了此书的删节版，大量删去了原书最后两编的内容。

Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsu (Chinese: 徐中約, 1923 – October 24, 2005) was a sinologist, a scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history, and a professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Biography

Born in Shanghai in 1923, he studied at Yenching University in Beijing, and the University of Minnesota. He held a Harvard-Yenching Fellowship at Harvard University from 1950 to 1954.

After receiving his doctorate from Harvard, he spent the years 1955–58 as a Research Fellow at Harvard's East Asian Research Center. He taught modern Chinese history at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1959 until his retirement in 1991, serving as Chair of the History department from 1970 to 1972.

He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1962–1963, as well as a Fulbright Fellow. His most widely read book is The Rise of Modern China, a survey of Chinese history from 1600 to the present, and a standard textbook.

He died of complications from pneumonia on October 24, 2005.

Publications

The Rise of Modern China, Oxford University Press (First edition, 1970; sixth edition, 2000).

Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period

China's entry into the Family of Nations: The Diplomatic Phase, 1858–1880

The Ili Crisis: A Study of Sino-Russian Diplomacy, 1871–1881

China Without Mao: The Search for a New Order, Oxford University Press, 1983.

Chapter on Late Ch’ing foreign relations, 1866–1905 in The Cambridge History of China, Volume 11: Late Ch'ing, 1800–1911, edited by John K. Fairbank and Kwang-Ching Liu, Cambridge University Press. (Publisher's Catalogue)