James T. C. Liu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJames T. C. Liu
Chinese historian
Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1919
Place of Birth: Shanghai, China
Date of Death: 30-Sep-1993
Profession: historian
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About James T. C. Liu
- Liu Tzu Chien (December 19, 1919 – September 30, 1993), better known as James T.
- C.
- Liu, was a Chinese historian and a leading scholar on Song dynasty history.
- He was a professor at Princeton University for more than two decades. As a young student at Yenching University, he was twice arrested (and tortured in the second arrest) by the Kuomintang government.
- After the Second Sino-Japanese War he served as historical consultant at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
- Thereafter he went to study in the United States, obtaining his Ph.D.
- at the University of Pittsburgh. Liu died at his home in the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.
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