Tsien Tsuen-hsuin

Tsien Tsuen-hsuin
錢存訓
Born	(1910-01-11)11 January 1910 Taizhou, Jiangsu, Qing Empire
Died	9 April 2015(2015-04-09) (aged 105) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality	Chinese
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Nanking (BA) University of Chicago (MA, PhD)
Spouse	Hsu Wen-ching ​ ​ (m. 1936; died 2008)​
Children	3
Scientific career
Fields	Chinese bibliography, Library science, history
Institutions	University of Chicago (1947–78)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	錢存訓
Simplified Chinese	钱存训
Hanyu Pinyin	Qián Cúnxùn
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Qián Cúnxùn Gwoyeu Romatzyh Chyan Tswenshiunn Wade–Giles Ch'ien2 Ts'un2-hsün4 IPA [tɕʰjɛ̌n tsʰwə̌nɕŷn] Wu Romanization Zi Zən-shün

Tsien Tsuen-hsuin (Chinese: 錢存訓; pinyin: Qián Cúnxùn; 11 January 1910 – 9 April 2015), also known as T.H. Tsien, was a Chinese-American bibliographer, librarian, and sinologist who served as a professor of Chinese literature and library science at the University of Chicago, and was also curator of its East Asian Library from 1949 to 1978. He is known for studies of the history of the Chinese book, Chinese bibliography, paleography, and science and technology, especially the history of paper and printing in China, notably Paper and Printing, Volume 5 Pt 1 of British biochemist and sinologist Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China.^[1][2] He is also known for risking his life to smuggle tens of thousands of rare books outside of Japanese-occupied China during World War II.^[3]