Hsi-Huey Liang
Hsi-Huey Liang (1929–2004) was a historian who specialised in European diplomatic, social and urban history. He taught history at Bard College, the University of California at Los Angeles , and Vassar College.[1]
Hsi-Huey Liang was born in Germany on April 18, 1929, to Chinese diplomat, Lone Liang. He completed his early schooling part in Europe and part in China and secondary studies in Switzerland and United Kingdom. He graduated from the University of Cambridge, and completed his doctoral studies from Yale University in 1955. His works include The Berlin Police in the Weimar Republic (1970) on political and social unrest of the 1920s in Germany, The Sino-German Connection (1978) on the relations between Germany and China during the inter was period,[2][3] The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System (1992), considered as his magnum opus, an analysis of the police's role in continental European politics, diplomacy, and warfare from the Congress of Vienna to the 1930s,[4][5] Berlin Before the Wall: A Foreign Student’s Diary with Sketches (1990) a memoir cum historical sketch of Berlin.[6]
The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System (1992) is considered a pioneering work on the role of police in international diplomacy and warfare, and concludes that police played a critical role shaping the interstate relations in continental Europe between the middle of the Nineteenth Century to the beginning of the Second World War.[4][7]
He died in Poughkeepsie, New York, on July 25, 2004.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Hsi-Huey Liang (1929–2004) – AHA". American Historical Association. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
- ↑ Presseisen, E. L. (1980). [Review of The Sino-German Connection: Alexander von Falkenhausen between China and Germany 1900-1941, by H.-H. Liang]. The Journal of Modern History, 52(1), 169–170. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1877991
- ↑ Lomová, O., & Zádrapová, A. (2014). Beyond Academia and Politics: Understanding China and Doing Sinology in Czechoslovakia after World War II. China Review, 14(2), 11–35. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23928502
- 1 2 Daly, Jonathan W. "The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System from Metternich to the Second World War. Hsi-Huey Liang". The Journal of Modern History. 67 (2): 386–388. doi:10.1086/245104. ISSN 0022-2801.
- ↑ Speier, H. (1971). [Review of The Berlin Police Force in the Weimar Republic, by H.-H. Liang]. Central European History, 4(1), 86–89. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4545594
- ↑ Schalk, David; Wohl, Anthony; Merrel, James; Rebecca, Edwards. "Department of History Memorial Minute for His- Huey Liang" (PDF). Vassar College. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
- ↑ Browder, G. C. (1993). [Review of The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System from Metternich to the Second World War, by H.-H. Liang]. Central European History, 26(4), 499–501. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4546379