Hsu Dau-lin

Xu Daolin (Chinese徐 道 邻/徐 道 邻, Pinyin Xu Daolin, W.-G. Hsu Dau -lin, born December 4, 1907 in Tokyo, † December 24, 1973 in Seattle ) was a Chinese legal scholar and university teacher in China, Taiwan and the United states.

Life

Xu Daolins father was the general and leading member of the Anhui clique Xu Shuzheng (徐树铮, Xu Shuzheng, Hsu Shu- cheng, 1880-1925 ), his mother Xia Xuan (夏 萱, Hsuan Hsia; 1878-1956 ). In 1910 his family returned back to China. After he had learned the German language, he studied in Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Geneva. During this time he wrote articles in the German Sinology journal Sinica on Guan Zhong and Du Fu. In 1929 he began his law studies in Berlin. In 1931 he received his doctorate with his dissertation The validity problem in constitutional law. In 1932 he wrote a monograph on the constitutional transformation. In the same year he returned to China, where he was secretary of Chiang Kai-shek at first, then from 1938-1941 affaires in Italy and from 1942-1944 Head of the Personnel Department, 1945 Director of Political Affairs of the Executive Yuan, 1947 Secretary General of the Province Taiwan and 1948-1949 Secretary General of the Jiangsu province.

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 of 1954-1958 Chinese and Roman Law at the National Taiwan University and from 1958-1962 at Tunghai University. From 1962 to 1965 he was a 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 1973 in Seattle.

Writings

  • 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, pp. 331
  • Crime and Cosmic Order. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 30, 1970, p 111-125
  • The Myth of the ' Five Human Relations ' of Confucius. Monumenta Serica, 29, 1970-71, 27-37
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