| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Wang Fan-sen. Fu Ssu-nien: A Life in Chinese History and Politics. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xvi, 261. $59.95.

Fu Ssu-nien, founder and director of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (1927–1948), and president of Taiwan National University (1949–1950), was a fascinating figure in the history of modern China. He began as a cultural iconoclast and May Fourth protestor in his student days at Beijing University, later rising to prominence as a historian of Chinese antiquity and an advocate of an "academic society" for Chinese scholars. In politics, during the Nationalist period, he was a "third kind of man" walking a path between the two major parties before eventually being driven to the Nationalists by his anticommunism. Late in 1948, he followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, where he died two years later, a different man from the cultural iconoclast that he once was. . . .

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