Tien Ju-K'ang (Chinese: 田汝康; pinyin: Tian Rukang; 1916–2006) was a Chinese anthropologist and historian, best known for his work on the Chinese of Sarawak. Other works concerned the history of Protestantism in China,[1] medical anthropology [2] and the Dai people.[3]

Born in Kunming, he first studied at Peking Normal University (1935-1937) before going abroad to the London School of Economics, initially to study psychology. On the advice of Raymond Firth, he switched to anthropology.[4] His 1953 work The Chinese of Sarawak, A Study of Social Structure drew on his fieldwork in 1948 and 1949 and gives a rare mid-20th century scholarly account of a Borneo society.[5] Though a professor at Fudan University, he faced persecution for his overseas connections (including siblings who had studied overseas and his own Chinese Canadian wife) beginning in 1952, and during the Cultural Revolution twice attempted suicide.[6] However, in the post-Mao era, he returned to active scholarship and received numerous invitations to lecture abroad. For his Morrison Lecture in 1981, he lectured on the history of his native province, "Moslem Rebellion in China: A Yunnan Controversy," about what is now generally known as the Panthay Rebellion.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ T'ien, Ju-K'ang (May 18, 2016). Peaks of Faith: Protestant Mission in Revolutionary China. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-31989-9.
  2. ↑ Ju-k′Ang, Tien (1985). "Traditional Chinese Beliefs and Attitudes toward Mental Illness". Chinese Culture and Mental Health. pp. 67–81. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-701630-6.50012-5. ISBN 978-0-12-701630-6.
  3. ↑ Walker, Anthony R. (March 1989). "Religious Cults of the Pai-I along the Burma-Yunnan Border. By Tien Ju-K'ang. Ithaca (New York): Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Monograph, 1986. Pp. xi, 132. Map, Tables. (With a foreword by A. Thomas Kirsch.)". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 20 (1): 144–147. doi:10.1017/S0022463400020105.
  4. ↑ "田汝康 - 北京大学社会学系". www.shehui.pku.edu.cn.
  5. ↑ Mills, Lennox A.; T'ien, Ju-K'ang (May 1954). "The Chinese of Sarawak: A Study of Social Structure". The Far Eastern Quarterly. 13 (3): 372. doi:10.2307/2942308. JSTOR 2942308.
  6. ↑ "田汝康 - 北京大学社会学系". www.shehui.pku.edu.cn.
  7. ↑ "The George E. Morrison Lectures in Ethnology - Australian Centre on China in the World - ANU". ciw.anu.edu.au.
  8. ↑ Tʻien, Ju-kʻang (1981). Moslem rebellion in China: a Yunnan controversy (PDF). Australian National University. OCLC 569523805.


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