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夏志清 | |
| Born | Chih-tsing Hsia January 11, 1921 Pudong, Shanghai, China |
| Died | December 29, 2013 (aged 92) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
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| Institutions | Columbia University |
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Hsia Chih-tsing (Chinese: 夏志清; January 11, 1921 – December 29, 2013), or C. T. Hsia, was a Chinese historian and literary theorist. He contributed to the introduction of modern Chinese literature to the Western world by promoting the works of once marginalized writers in the 1960s. Today, C. T. Hsia is considered one of the most important critics of Chinese literature.