E-tu Zen Sun

E-tu Zen Sun

E-tu Zen Sun (24 July 1921 – 28 June 2021) 孫任以都 was a historian, especially of "economic history of pre-20th century China."

The eldest daughter of Chen Hengzhe and H. C. Zen, she was born in Beijing. She arrived in the United States in 1941 and attended Vassar. She completed her PhD at Radcliffe under the supervision of John King Fairbank, on some of whose projects she also collaborated.

She was professor for many years at Pennsylvania State University, until retirement in 1988. She also served as president of the American Association of University Women State College from 1959 to 1961. With her husband Shiou-chuan Sun, a professor of engineering with a mining specialty, she produced the first English translation of Tiangong Kaiwu. This was the first time the work appeared in a European language.

References

• Gimpel, Denise (2015). Chen Hengzhe: A Life between Orthodoxies. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781498506939.

• Sivin, N. (1966), "A Chinese Classic: T'ien-Kung K'ai-Wu. Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century . Sung Yinghsing. Translated by E-Tu Zen Sun and Shiouchuan Sun. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1966. 386 Pp. Illus. $15", Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 153 (3737): 730–731, doi:10.1126/science.153.3737.730

• Pengyuan Zhang, Cuihua Yang, Songqiao Shen and Guangzhe Pan. Ren Yidu Xian Sheng Fang Wen Ji Lu. (Zhonghua min guo Taibei Shi: Zhong yang yan jiu yuan jin dai shi yan jiu suo, Zhong Yang Yan Jiu Yuan Jin Dai Shi Yan Jiu Suo Kou Shu Li Shi Cong Shu ; 50, 1993). ISBN 9576711959.

Selected publications

Translations

• Yingxing Song, E. Tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun, translate and edit, T'ien-Kung K'ai-Wu; Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1966). ISBN
• Minxiong Shi. The Silk Industry in Ch'ing China. (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History ; No. 5, 1976). ISBN

Articles and chapters

• —— (1948), "Chinese Student Opinion", Far Eastern Survey, 17 (15): 178–181, doi:10.1525/as.1948.17.15.01p0350y
• —— (1950), "The Lease of Wei-Hai Wei", Pacific historical review, 19 (3): 277–283, doi:10.2307/3635592
• —— (1951), "The Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway Loan of 1908", Far Eastern Quarterly, 10 (2): 136–150, doi:10.2307/2049093
• —— (1952), "Results of Culture Contact in Two Mongol-Chinese Communities", Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 8 (2): 182–210, doi:10.1086/soutjanth.8.2.3628614
• —— (1952), "The Chinese Constitutional Missions of 1905-1906", The Journal of modern history, 24 (3): 251–268, doi:10.1086/237519, JSTOR 1875482
• —— (1962), "The Board of Revenue in Nineteenth-Century China", Harvard journal of Asiatic studies, 24: 175–228, doi:10.2307/2718648, JSTOR 2718648
• —— (1965), "Wu Ch'i-Chün: Profile of a Chinese Scholar-Technologist", Technology and culture, 6 (3): 394–406, doi:10.2307/3101786
• —— (1968), "Ch'ing Government and the Mineral Industries before 1800", The Journal of Asian studies, 27 (4): 835–845, doi:10.2307/2051582
• —— (1974), "Chinese Schools in a Revolutionary Century", The Journal of general education (University Park, Pa.), 26 (3): 179–186

Books

• E. Tu Zen Sun. Chinese Railways and British Interests, 1898-1911. (New York: King's Crown Press, Columbia University, 1954). ISBN
• with John Defrancis, ed., Bibliography on Chinese Social History; a Selected and Critical List of Chinese Periodical Sources. (New Haven: Institute of Far Eastern Languages, Yale University, 1952).
• with Ssŭ-Yü Têng and John King Fairbank,eds., China's Response to the West; a Documentary Survey, 1839-1923. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954). ISBN
• with Ssŭ-Yü Têng and John King Fairbank,eds.,. Research Guide for China's Response to the West : A Documentary Survey, 1839-1923. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954). ISBN
• with John Defrancis,eds., Chinese Social History; Translations of Selected Studies. (Washington: American Council of Learned Societies, American Council of Learned Societies. Studies in Chinese and Related Civilizations, No. 7, 1956). ISBN
• E. Tu Zen Sun. Chʻing Administrative Terms; a Translation of the Terminology of the Six Boards with Explanatory Notes. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Harvard East Asian Series, 7, 1961).
• " The Growth of the Academic Community , 1912-1914 " in Denis Crispin Twitchett and John King Fairbank, ed., The Cambridge History of China. (Cambridge [England] ;: Cambridge University Press, 1978). ISBN 9780521243278.