Answer the following question: Facts: - death place: seattle , washington , united states - module: child p = xiao gongquan w = hsiao kung-ch ' uan = gr = shiau gongchyuan hsieu kung-chuon yes s = t = - fields: political science , philosophy - death date: 4 november 1981 - ethnicity: chinese - workplaces: university university of washington tsinghua university sichuan university national taiwan - notable students: david r. knechtges - birth date: 29 december 1897 - name: k. c. hsiao - image size: 175px - image: k.c. hsiao.jpg - birth place: taihe county , jiangxi , qing empire - alma mater: cornell university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of k. c. hsiao .
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k. c. hsiao -lrb- ; 29 december 18974 november 1981 -rrb- was a chinese scholar and educator , best known for his contributions to chinese political science and history .hsiao first travelled to the united states in 1920 , remaining there for six years and earning a ph.d. from cornell university in 1926 .he returned to china and was professor of political science at yenching university from 1930 to 1932 , then at tsinghua university from 1932 to 1937 .with the outbreak of the second sino-japanese war in 1937 , he left to teach at sichuan university and kwang hua university -lrb- now east china normal university -rrb- .frustrated by the shortage of research materials produced by the chinese civil war , he went to teach at national taiwan university in 1949 , and continued to the united states later that year .he taught at the university of washington -- initially as a visiting professor , and from 1959 as a tenured professor -- from 1949 to 1968 .hsiao 's '' magnum opus '' was his '' zhongguo zhengzhi sixiang shi -lrb- history of chinese political thought -rrb- '' , an authoritative work that traces chinese political thought from its earliest recorded history in the shang dynasty to his day .hsiao hoped that the twentieth century would come to embody ' liberal socialism ' , thereby reconciling the political movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries .