Sidney Hsu-Hsin Chang (; January 1, 1934 – October 3, 2016)"Library of Congress Authorities & Vocabularies." LC Name Authority File, Identifier No. 86866844. Library of Congress Linked Data Services. Retrieved February 4, 2017. (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86866844.html) was a Taiwanese-American historian, author, and academic specializing in the history of China, modern Far East, and East Asian civilizations. For nearly half a century he was a professor at California State University, Fresno. He was a visiting professor at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan. On behalf of the Republic of China on Taiwan, Chang served as an attaché at the Far East Trade Service Center in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany (1984–1985) and as a cultural attaché in Russia (1997–1999), while on sabbatical from teaching. He was a member of the Republican Presidential Task Force and the Republican National Committee.
Early life and education Born in Wuchang, Hubei Province, in southeast China, Chang spent much of his childhood in the adjacent Hunan Province.Who's Who in the West, 1984-1985, 19th edition (Chicago, IL: Marquis Who's Who, Inc., 1983), p. 144. Wuchang is the place of China's first modern revolution, ignited by an accidental explosion that led to the rapid demise of the Manchu Qing dynasty and the development of the Republic of China. Sidney was the oldest of fourteen children, including five who did not survive infancy. His mother, Wen-jane Hwang, was a kindergarten teacher, and his father, Chung-ning Chang, was an official in the Chinese Nationalist government, a delegate to the National Assembly, and dean of students at the National Taiwan Normal University.
In 1945, he was attending Yali High School, also known as Yale-in-China, in Changsha, Hunan.See The Eightieth Anniversary of the Founding of Yali Middle School (1906-1986), name listed among the graduates (1928 – 1952) on p. 75. The school was part of the Yale Mission College founded to bring "Western learning to the heart of China.""Our History," Yale-China Review, Spring 2013, p. 4. When the Chinese Communist revolution began to gain momentum and the Nationalist government started to fail, he was separated from his family and fled alone to Hong Kong as a refugee in 1948. He was eventually reunited with his family in Macau and helped lead six of his younger siblings to Taiwan, where the family settled in 1950. Chang served in the Republic of China Armed Forces and graduated from National Taiwan University as a history major in 1955.
Next year he enrolled in a graduate program to study journalism at National Chengchi University, the only journalism school on Taiwan at the time, and worked as a news reporter for the Central Daily News. The school's dean, Milton J. T. Shieh, was also his major professor. Chang got his professor's recommendation to join a graduate program at the Missouri School of Journalism, where Shieh had graduated in 1945. Chang moved to America in August 1957 via a cargo ship that docked in Portland, Oregon. Two years later, he received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1959. That year, the University of Missouri hosted the Press Congress of the World for three days, beginning on March 2, in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the School of Journalism. Among forty delegates from thirty-five countries was Milton J. T. Shieh.Milton J. T. Shieh was the author of The Press of Free China (Taipei, Republic of China: Shin Sheng Pao Daily News, 1959), which was dedicated to the University of Missouri School of Journalism on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. He edited The Kuomintang: Selected Historical Documents, 1894-1969 (Asia in the Modern World Series, No. 7), published by St. John's University Press in 1970 Chang wrote an article for the Columbia Missourian based on his interview with his mentor.Sidney Chang, "Alumnus Visits University as WPC Delegate," Columbia Missourian, March 15, 1959.
In 1961, he earned a master's degree in library science from Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he met his future wife of fifty-two years, Elaine Grace Pardue, whom he married on September 15, 1962. The couple raised their two sons on university campuses where they happened to live and work. Chang obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in East Asian History in January 1967, from University of Wisconsin at Madison. His minor fields included Indian Studies and Art History. He used rare documents from the Kuomintang Archives in Taipei, reports of witnesses and correspondents as well as U.S. State Department and the British Foreign Office documents to write his doctoral thesis on the Kuomintang's Foreign Policy, 1925–1928. The range of topics covered the Chinese war lords, Peking government, Nationalist government, Russian advisors, and British policies.
Chang conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard University East Asian Research Center and Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History in 1969 and 1970. Among his mentors at Harvard were prominent academicians John K. Fairbank and Henry Kissinger, who was then director of the Harvard International Seminar. At Harvard, Chang met two top Soviet Sinologists, Mikhail I. Sladkovsky,M.I. Sladkovsky was the author of The Long Road: Sino-Russian Economic Contacts from Ancient Times to 1917, translated from Russian by Liv Tudge (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974/1981). the director of the Institute of Oriental Studies and corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and Boris N. Zanegin, a Chinese-speaking senior research member of its Institute of the United States and Canada.
Work Chang co-wrote and co-edited five books. Together with Leonard H.D. Gordon of Purdue University he produced a comprehensive study of China's revolutionary, Sun Yat-sen, who helped lead the 1911 Revolution. The study, entitled All Under Heaven: Sun Yat-sen and His Revolutionary Thought,Chang, Hsu-Hsin, and Leonard H.D. Gordon. All Under Heaven: Sun Yat-sen and His Revolutionary Thought. Studies in Economic, Social, and Political Change: The Republic of China. Hoover Institution Press Publication No. 400. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, 1991. 253 p. or and or was published by the Stanford University's Hoover Institution Press in 1991. The title came from the Chinese Taoist teaching: "When the Great Way prevails, all under heaven will work for the people." The primary focus of the authors was on San Min Chu I, or Three People's Principles, the ideological doctrine that set force measures to bring about a new political and economic framework for China. The authors detailed the evolution of Sun's views and the intellectual challenges he faced in integrating such often conflicting strands as traditional Chinese thought, communist theory, and revolutionary strategy and objectives. By undertaking a fresh scrutiny of Sun's writings, ranging from books and formal speeches to telegrams and personal correspondence, the authors gave a compelling portrait of a man who as both a visionary and a pragmatist laid the foundation of modern Chinese state.
Chang and Gordon compiled a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources relevant to the revolutionary activities of Sun Yat-sen from the inception of his thought to the overthrow of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of a republic, from his eighteenth year in April 1885, until his death on March 12, 1925.Chang, Hsu-Hsin, and Leonard H.D. Gordon. Bibliography of Sun Yat-sen in China's Republican Revolution, 1885-1925. First edition. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991. 349 p. The authors consulted over thirty library catalogs and visited research collections in major Asian libraries and archives in the United States, Europe, and East Asia. The first edition, which contains 2,216 entries in all bibliographical categories, was published in 1991. In addition to English, the original titles appeared in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, Yiddish, Thai, and Hindi. The revised and enlarged second edition followed, adding major works published from 1989 to early 1997, for a total of 2,581 entries.Chang, Hsu-Hsin, and Leonard H.D. Gordon. Bibliography of Sun Yat-sen in China's Republican Revolution, 1885-1925. Revised and enlarged second edition. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. 549 p. Publications in Arabic, Tamil, and Hungarian were added. This bibliography lists writings by and about Sun Yat-sen as well as books, articles, translated works and document collections, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and selected newspaper and magazine accounts, published during his lifetime and in subsequent years. The authors unearthed Sun Yat-sen's works published under sixty-nine names.
With Ramon H. Myers,Ramon H. Myers was a senior fellow at the Stanford University's Hoover Institution until he died in November 2015 a senior fellow and curator of the East Asian Collection at the Stanford University's Hoover Institution Library, Chang edited and compiled The Storm Clouds Clear over China: The Memoir of Ch'en Li-fu, 1900-1993, published by Hoover Institution Press in 1994.Ch'en, Lifu, Hsu-Hsin Chang, and Ramon Hawley Myers. The Storm Clouds Clear over China: The Memoir of Ch'en Li-fu, 1900-1993. Studies in Economic, Social, and Political Change: The Republic of China. Hoover Institution Press Publication No. 419. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, 1994. 359 p. The editors condensed Timothy Tung's English translation of the original eleven-hundred-page handwritten Chinese manuscript to seven hundred pages, crosschecking the original Chinese writing of Ch'en against Tung's translation. They set with Chen Lifu for ten interviews, averaging two to three hours each. Answers related to various episodes added two hundred pages of transcriptions to the original. All the information from interviews plus follow-up correspondence with the author was integrated into the final product. The editors verified the facts and events recorded in the memoir through such sources as U.S. Military Reports: China 1911-1941, U.S. State Department Confidential Central Files: China Internal Affairs 1945-1949, and other publications of the State Department, notably U.S. Foreign Relations, 1927-1951. Ch'en Li-fu was of paramount importance in the Kuomintang throughout most of its existence. This was the first memoir in English about modern Chinese Nationalist politics. The information that it provided about a variety of questions, until the time of its publication quite concealed (Chiang Kai-shek's negotiations with the USSR, the organization of the Chinese secret services, the information about the Second United Front), was totally original.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the China theater on August 15, 1945, Chang organized a symposium at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on July 24–27, 1995. He published proceedings under the title China, 1925-1950: Symposium on the Memoir of Ch'en Li-fu.Chang, Sidney H. and Yung-ching Chiang. Chʻen Li-fu Hui I Lu Tʻao Lun Hui Lun Wen Chi: 1925 Nien Chih 1950 Nien Chih Chung-kuo. Hsin-tien shih: Kuo shih kuan. (China, 1925-1950: Symposium on the Memoir of Chʻen Li-fu. Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Japan's Surrender in the China Theater, August 15, 1945. A Chinese Language Symposium at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, July 24–27, 1995). Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.: Academia Historica, 1997. 303 p. and