V. A. Renouf

Vincent Adams Renouf (1876-1910) 任勞

"In 1901, he traveled to Shanghai, China, to serve as Fourth Assistant B in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs service. In April 1903, he was detached from the service and accepted a professorship offered by the Imperial Peiyang University in Tientsin (now Tianjin University). While teaching history and political economy at the university, he wrote the book Outline of General History for Eastern Students that was published by Macmillan and Co. in 1908. Soon after beginning to research the population question in China, he was struck by typhus and died ten days later on May 4, 1910."

Correspondence (1901-1910) relating to Renouf's position as professor of history and political economy at Imperial Peiyang University (Kuo li pei yang ta hsüeh) and publication of his book, Outlines of General History (1909); affidavits (1887-1895) regarding his primary and secondary education; drafts (circa 1901-1910) of miscellaneous articles on Chinese and Japanese history and culture; lecture notes, student essays, and class record used while teaching in China (circa 1901-1910); notes, largely on natural sciences, taken as student at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.) (1895-1899); essays written while attending Johns Hopkins University (1896); notes and typescripts on world history, together with ms. and typewritten drafts and page proofs (circa 1901-1907) of his book; and other material.

source: Inventory to the Vincent Adams Renouf Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.