Yue-him Tam ÃÓ¦¼Á¾
Born in China and educated in Hong
Kong, Japan and the United States,
Yue-him Tam received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975. He specializes in modern Japanese intellectual
history and Sino-Japanese relations. In 1990 he joined the faculty of
Macalester College in Minnesota, USA as professor of history and was later
appointed director of Programs of East Asian Studies & Japan Study. Before
joining Macalester, he held senior teaching and administrative positions at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong for 19 years, serving as Senior Lecturer of
History, College Dean of Students, College Dean of General Education and
Director of the Center for East Asian Studies. He was a visiting
fellow/professor at the University of Chicago, University of Tokyo, York
University and a number of universities in China.
Professor Tam has
published widely on modern Japanese
history and Sino-Japanese cultural relations. He has two monographs, ten edited books, three translated books,
and many academic papers written in
Chinese, Japanese or English.
Professor Tam’s
professional services include the Advisory Board of the Journal of the East Asian Library at Princeton University (Princeton,
NJ), Chair of Committee on East Asian Studies of ACTC (consortium of five
independent colleges in the Twin Cities, Minnesota), Member of Executive Board of the Chinese Association for Japanese
Historical Studies ¤¤°ê¤é¥»¥v¾Ç·|
(Tianjin, China), and Council Member of the Chinese Association for the
Studies of Sino-Japanese Relations ¤¤°ê¤¤¤éÃö¨t¥v¬ã¨s·| (Beijing, China).
Professor Tam is also
active in social services. He has served on the boards and task forces of such
organizations as the Hong Kong Examination Authority »´ä¦Ò¸Õ§½, the Japan Society of Hong Kong »´ä¤å¤Æ¨ó·|,
, the Minnesota Chinese Music Ensemble ¬ü°ê©ú¦{°ê¼ÖªÀ, and the Organization of
Chinese Americans (OCA) of Minnesota ©ú¦{¬üµØ¨ó·|.. Presently he is President of the Global Alliance for Preserving
the History of World War II in Asia (GA) ¥@¬É§Ü¤é¾Ôª§¥v¹êºûÅ@Áp¦X·|. .
Professor Tam is one
of the pioneer scholars specializing in Sino-Japanese studies. As early as
1971, he served as head of the research and translation teams in the New
York-based Research Society of Chinese Affairs °ê¬O¬ã¨sªÀ, a leading research organization specializing
in the Sino-Japanese dispute over the sovereignty of the Diaoyutai (Senkaku)
Islands. In 1979 he organized an international conference to review the
Sino-Japanese cultural interaction for two millennia in Hong Kong. The first of
its kind, this conference attracted such
renowned scholars as Saneto Keishu (Waseda), Oba Osamu (Kansai), Marius
B. Jansen (Princeton) and Donald Keene (Columbia) as contributing participants.
In 1990 Professor Tam worked as
secretary-general for the first international conference on modern
Sino-Japanese relations held in Hong Kong, studying Japan’s war crimes and
responsibilities during World War II. Jointly sponsored by CUHK and Southern
Illinois University, this academic conference was to start an on-going series
of biennial international conference sponsored respectively by such prestigious
institutions as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, 1993), the Academia Sinica (Taipei, 1995),
Keio University (Tokyo, 1997) and Northeast University (Changchun, 1998).
Professor Tam’s
biography can be found in Who’s Who in
the World (Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who Publications, 1983), Dictionary of Japanologists ª¾¤é®a¤H¦WÃã¨å(Tokyo: Yushindo, 1984) and Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese
Historians ¤¤°ê·í¥N¾ú¥v¾ÇªÌµü¨å (Xian, China: Northwest University Press,
1994).
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