E-tu Zen Sun

E-tu Zen Sun 孫任以都 was a historian, especially of "economic history of pre-20th century China."
The eldest daughter of Chen Hengzhe and H. C. Zen, she was born in Beijing. She arrived in the United States in 1941 and attended Vassar. She completed her PhD at Radcliffe under the supervision of John King Fairbank, on some of whose projects she also collaborated.
She was professor for many years at Pennsylvania State University, until retirement in 1988. She also served as president of the American Association of University Women State College from 1959 to 1961. With her husband Shiou-chuan Sun, a professor of engineering with a mining specialty, she produced the first English translation of Tiangong Kaiwu. This was the first time the work appeared in a European language.

Selected publications

Translations

Yingxing Song, E. Tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun, translate and edit, T'ien-Kung K'ai-Wu; Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century.. ISBN
Minxiong Shi. The Silk Industry in Ch'ing China.. ISBN

Articles and chapters

Books

E. Tu Zen Sun. Chinese Railways and British Interests, 1898-1911.. ISBN
with John Defrancis, ed., Bibliography on Chinese Social History; a Selected and Critical List of Chinese Periodical Sources..
with Ssŭ-Yü Têng and John King Fairbank,eds., China's Response to the West; a Documentary Survey, 1839-1923.. ISBN
with Ssŭ-Yü Têng and John King Fairbank,eds.,. Research Guide for China's Response to the West : A Documentary Survey, 1839-1923.. ISBN
with John Defrancis,eds., Chinese Social History; Translations of Selected Studies.. ISBN
E. Tu Zen Sun. Chʻing Administrative Terms; a Translation of the Terminology of the Six Boards with Explanatory Notes..
" The Growth of the Academic Community, 1912-1914 " in Denis Crispin Twitchett and John King Fairbank, ed., The Cambridge History of China.. ISBN 9780521243278.