Xu Daolin

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Xu Daolin ( Chinese  徐 道 鄰  /  徐 道 邻 , Pinyin Xú Dàolín , W.-G. Hsü Dau-lin ; born December 4, 1907 in Tokyo , † December 24, 1973 in Seattle ) was a Chinese lawyer and university teacher in China, Taiwan and the United States.

Life

Xu Daolin's father was the general and leading member of the Anhui clique Xu Shuzheng ( 徐樹錚 , Xú Shùzhēng , Hsü Shu-cheng ; 1880–1925), his mother Xia Xuan ( 夏 萱 , Hsia Hsuan ; 1878–1956). In 1910 his family returned to China . After learning the German language, he studied in Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Geneva. During this time he wrote articles in the German-language sinological journal Sinica about Guan Zhong and Du Fu . In 1929 he began to study law in Berlin. In 1931 he received his doctorate with his dissertationThe problem of validity in constitutional law . In 1932 he wrote a monograph on the constitutional amendment. In the same year he returned to China, where he first secretary of Chiang Kai-shek was then 1938-1941 Charge d'Affaires in Italy and from 1942 to 1944 Head of the Personnel Department, 1945 Director of Political Affairs of the Executive Yuan , 1947 Secretary General of the Province Taiwan and General Secretary of Jiangsu Province from 1948 to 1949 .

He also taught at universities: 1944–1945 at the National Central University in Chongqing , 1947–1949 at Tongji University in Shanghai where he was also dean, from 1954 to 1958 Chinese and Roman law at the National University of Taiwan and from 1958 to 1962 at Tunghai University . From 1962 to 1965 he was visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle , from 1965 to 1966 at Columbia University , from 1966 to 1970 at Michigan State University and then as a full professor at the University of Washington. He died in Seattle in 1973.

Fonts

  • The Chinese Love Sinica, 6, 1929
  • Introduction to T'ang Law. Chungking: Chung-hua., 1945, p. 94
  • Introduction to Semantics. [In Chinese] Hong Kong: Union Publishers. 1957, p. 218
  • The Benevolent Government of the Early Chou Emperors . Tunghai Journal, I, 1959
  • The Life of General Hsu Shu-tseng . Commercial Press, Taipei, 1962, p. 331
  • Crime and Cosmic Order . Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 30, 1970, pp. 111-125
  • The Myth of the 'Five Human Relations' of Confucius . Monumenta Serica, 29, 1970-71, 27-37

literature

  • Hartmut Wallravens: Hsü Dau-lin 徐 道 鄰 (1906–1973) in correspondence with Hellmut Wilhelm . University of Hamburg, Japanologie NOAG, 177–178, 2005 ( online version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Necrology: Hsü Dau-lin (1906–1973) . In: Anthony W. Sariti (Ed.): Sung Studies Newsletter . No. June 9 , 1974, p. 42–46 ( PDF obituary including list of publications).
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Xu is the family name here, Daolin is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Xu Daolin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hsü Dau-lin (Wade-Giles transcription); 徐 道 鄰 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo
DATE OF DEATH December 24th 1973
Place of death Seattle