From Rural China to the Ivy League: Reminiscences of Transformations in Modern Chinese History.

In 1985, Yü Ying-shih wrote a poem honoring his mentor, the eminent historian Qian Mu, on the occasion of Qian's ninetieth birthday. Qian Mu offered that view in the introduction to his I General History of China i ( I Guoshi dagang i ), which Yü had read at Northeast Zhongzheng University in 1947 but first studied in depth with Qian Mu himself in 1950. Further reflection leads the reader to see how Yü's memoir resembles Qian Mu's, which was completed in Qian's eighty-eighth year ( I Shi you za yi i [Memories of Teachers and Friends]). [Extracted from the article]