Background
Tang, Anthony Matthew was born on May 6, 1924 in Shanghai, China. Came to the United States, 1945, naturalized, 1953. Son of Shu-ping and Yueh-pao (Hsu) Tang.
Tang, Anthony Matthew was born on May 6, 1924 in Shanghai, China. Came to the United States, 1945, naturalized, 1953. Son of Shu-ping and Yueh-pao (Hsu) Tang.
Bachelor of Business Administration, Loyola University, New Orleans, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, 1955.
Faculty Vanderbilt University, Nashville, from 1955, professor economics and business administration, 1963-1986, professor emeritus, from 1986, chairman department, 1968-1971, director, graduate program in economic development, 1961-1963, director East Asian studies program, 1973-1976, director graduate studies, 1983-1986. Associate for Philippines Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, 1986-1988. Visiting lecturer Osaka University, Japan, 1959-1960.
Visiting professor University California-Berkeley, 1963-1964, University Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1973, National Taiwan University, 1974-1975, University Hawaii, summer 1979, 80. Visiting professor economics, chairman department, dean faculty commerce and social science Chinese University, Hong Kong, 1966-1968, external examiner, 1968-1970, 79-81, 84-86. Visiting professor economics Center for Chinese Studies, University Michigan, 1976-1977.
Visiting senior research fellow Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, Taipei, summer 1981. Visiting professor agricultural economics University Philippines at Los Banos, 1986-1988. Visiting professor economics University Philippines, Diliman, 1987-1988, Chinese University of Hong Kong, since 1988.
Lecturer East-West Center for bank senior staff training program, Asian Development Bank Manila. Consultant Foreign Operations Administration, 1954, Ford Foundation, 1973, International Food Policy Research Institute, 1978, 89, Midwest China Study Resource Center, 1979, United Nations Development Program, Panama, 1983, 84, 85, Astan Development Bank, 1989.
Member American Economic Association (advisory committee United States Census 1960-1963, member policy board for Economics Institutes 1963-1966, member delegate to Peking, China 1981), Association Comparative Economic Studies, American Agricultural Economics Association (editorial council journal. 1968-1971), International Agricultural Economics Association, Society Asian Studies, Southern Economic Association (editor journal. 1963-1966), Midwest Regional Seminar on China (executive board committee on Asian Economic Studies).
Married Jane Pentecost, November 27, 1946 (deceased September 1987). Children: Matthew, Jeremiah, John, Lyda Anne, Arthur, Patricia.