Life in China and Hong Kong
His biographer sketches the "economic mold" of Seven Mansions, his ancestral home in Wuxi, to suggest that in his childhood world the "small peasant cosmos" of rituals, festivals, and beliefs held the family system together. He received little formal modern education, but gained his knowledge on Chinese history and culture through traditional home study. After teaching in universities in mainland China starting the in 1920s, he arrived in Hong Kong in 1949. With help from the Yale-China Association, along with other traditional scholars he cofounded New Asia College. He later received honorary doctorates from both Yale University and Hong Kong University.
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