Sunday 19 April 2015

T.H. Tsien, Scholar of Chinese Written Word, Dies at 105

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Professor Tsien risked his life in 1941 to smuggle tens of thousands of rare volumes to safety at the Library of Congress amid the Japanese occupation of Shanghai.

















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