China Review International

Pollard, Vincent Kelly, 1944-
Tang Tsou (1918-1999)
China Review International - Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2000, pp. 1-5

University of Hawai'i Press

Remembering Tang Tsou  © 2000 by University of Hawai‘i Press remembering Tang tsou Tang Tsou (–) Shortly before leaving Honolulu for the ninety-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in Atlanta, I heard the sad news that Tang Tsou , Homer J. Livingston Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago, had died of heart failure on August , . As chance would have it, three of five people on our APSA conference panel had had contact with Professor Tsou, two of us rather extensively as former students of his. Tsou would have agreed with the orientation of our panel: searching out links between domestic and international politics in the present age of globalization. Once describing himself as “a rootless scholar,” Tang Tsou led a long, productive, and influential career as a political scientist. As a former student of Tsou’s who subsequently maintained intermittent contact with him, I am sharing some observations about his aspirations, research methodology and achievements. The range of Tsou’s scholarly interests was impressive. His research foci included foreign and cross-national political institutions and behavior; elites and their oppositions; political development and modernization; values, ideologies, belief systems, and political culture; international politics; revolution and political violence; and foreign policy. With articles in Orbis, China Quarterly,...