Te-Kong Tong

Also known as: 唐德刚等, 唐德刚著, 唐德刚整理

Born
1920–2009
Nationality
United States
Notable works
Collected Works of Tang Degang (Nine Titles in 11 Volumes)Historiography and RedologyMemoirs of Li Tsung-jen (Two Volumes)

16 written works

About the author

Te-Kong Tong (1920–2009), a Chinese-American historian and biographer born in Hefei, Anhui, earned a doctorate in history from Columbia University. An important pioneer of oral history in the Chinese-speaking world, he helped Hu Shih, Li Tsung-jen and V. K. Wellington Koo complete their oral biographies, making notable contributions to recording and organizing modern historical sources. His works span historiography, Redology and personal reminiscence; representative titles include an oral autobiography of Hu Shih, the memoirs of Li Tsung-jen and a study of the late Qing. His writing combines scholarly inquiry with readable narrative, often using essayistic prose to trace historical developments and personal connections, and his books have reached a wide readership in history, documentary writing and biography.

Written (16)

Historiography and Redology cover
Rating 4.4
Historiography and Redology Te-Kong Tong China Culture and History Press · 2026 Tang Degang's long life spanned China's frequent wars of the modern era, and he received extensive academic training in both Chinese and Western class…
Fate with Books and Fate with People cover
Rating 4.3
Fate with Books and Fate with People Te-Kong Tong China Culture and History Press · 2026 Oral history was the endeavor to which Te-Kong Tong devoted most of his life. After helping many modern and contemporary celebrities complete their or…
The Great Upheaval of the Late Qing: Disorder, Conflict, and Decline (5 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.2
The Great Upheaval of the Late Qing: Disorder, Conflict, and Decline (5 Volumes) 魏斐德 / 袁灿兴 / Ma Yong / Te-Kong Tong 天津博集新媒科技有限公司 · 2026 This set consists of five volumes, including The Decline of the Chinese Empire, Mountains and Rivers Transformed: Disorder, Conflict, and Decline in t…
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Rating 4.1
From the Late Qing to the Republic Te-Kong Tong China Culture and History Press · 2026 The twists and turns of the Yangtze's Three Gorges are the pride of the Chinese people and a tidal zone in China's natural history. The Opium War open…
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Rating 4.0
Our Friend Hu Shih Te-Kong Tong / 夏志清 / 周策纵 Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2026 "My friend Hu Shih" was once a common phrase among people of the Republic of China era — testimony to his extraordinary fame, popularity, and influenc…
Dust of the 1950s (Tang Degang's Works, Vol. 8) cover
Rating 4.2
Dust of the 1950s (Tang Degang's Works, Vol. 8) Te-Kong Tong Guangxi Normal University Press · 2021 Dust of the 1950s (Works of Tang Degang, Vol. 8), a selection of Tang Degang's writings published in New York in the 1950s, mostly pieces rediscovered…
Collected Works of Tang Degang (Nine Titles in 11 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.5
Collected Works of Tang Degang (Nine Titles in 11 Volumes) Te-Kong Tong Guangxi Normal University Press · 2020 This collection brings together nine works by Te-Kong Tong in eleven volumes: *The Oral Autobiography of Hu Shih*—the best introduction to Hu Shih the…
Memoirs of Li Tsung-jen (Two Volumes) cover
Rating 4.4
Memoirs of Li Tsung-jen (Two Volumes) Li Zongren / Te-Kong Tong Guangxi Normal University Press · 2015 This is a book that is hard to replace. Its subject, Li Tsung-jen, was the leader of the Guangxi clique, a famous general of the Northern Expedition, …
From the Late Qing to the Republic cover
Rating 4.2
From the Late Qing to the Republic Te-Kong Tong China Culture and History Press · 2015 This is a monograph on modern Chinese history by the Chinese-American historian T. K. Tong (Tang Degang). The original traditional-Chinese edition was…
From the Late Qing to the Republic cover
Rating 4.2
From the Late Qing to the Republic Te-Kong Tong China Culture and History Press · 2015 From the Late Qing to the Republic is a representative work of modern Chinese history by the Chinese-American historian Te-kong Tong. Originally title…
The Duan Qirui Regime: Warlords in Republican China cover
Rating 3.8
The Duan Qirui Regime: Warlords in Republican China Te-Kong Tong Guangxi Normal University Press · 2015 The Duan Qirui Regime: Warlords in Republican China is a posthumous collection of manuscripts from Tang Degang's "General History of the Republic of C…
The Collected Works of Tang Degang (9 Titles in 11 Volumes) cover
The Collected Works of Tang Degang (9 Titles in 11 Volumes) Te-Kong Tong Guangxi Normal University Press · 2015 This is the simplified-Chinese hardcover boxed set of The Collected Works of Tang Degang, published by Guangxi Normal University Press (Imaginist), co…
From the Late Qing to the Republic cover
From the Late Qing to the Republic Te-Kong Tong China Culture and History Press · 2015 This book is the modern-history magnum opus of the Chinese American historian T'ang Te-tsung (Tang Degang), reorganized and recompiled from his earlie…
The Duan Qirui Regime: Warlord Volume of Republican History cover
The Duan Qirui Regime: Warlord Volume of Republican History Te-Kong Tong Guangxi Normal University Press · 2015 This book is the fruit of Te-Kong Tong's "General History of the Republic of China" project, specifically the "warlord volume" of Republican history, …
The Oral History of Zhang Xueliang cover
The Oral History of Zhang Xueliang Zhang Xueliang (Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal) / Te-Kong Tong China Archives Publishing House · 2007 This is a book in which the "Young Marshal" tells his own story. At the age of ninety, Zhang Xueliang asked Tang Degang to write his biography; the tw…
The Oral History of Zhang Xueliang cover
The Oral History of Zhang Xueliang Zhang Xueliang (Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal) / Te-Kong Tong China Archives Publishing House · 2007 The Oral History of Zhang Xueliang was narrated by Zhang Xueliang in his later years and compiled and written by the Chinese-American historian Te-kon…

Publishers

China Culture and History PressChina Archives Publishing House天津博集新媒科技有限公司Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd.Guangxi Normal University Press