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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