蒋廷黻是哥伦比亚大学的哲学博士,担任过清华大学历史学教授、国民政府行政院政务处长、中国驻苏联大使等。当时,蒋廷黻备受关注,广为人称道的是他的“牛劲儿”。20世纪20年代,中国近代史研究领域还是一片荒漠,蒋廷黻有志做一名拓荒者。他开垦的第一片荒地,就是中国近代外交史。他积累了大批中国近代外交史的第一手资料,编纂出我国第一本《近代中国外交史资料 Jiang Tingtao is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University who served as Professor of History at Tsinghua University, as Chief of Administrative Affairs of the Executive Yuan of the National Government, and Ambassador of China to the Soviet Union. At that time, Jiang Tingtao much attention, is widely praised his . In the 1920s, the research field of modern Chinese history was still deserted, and Jiang Tingtao was determined to be a pioneer. He reclaimed the first piece of wasteland, that is, China’s modern diplomatic history. He has accumulated a large number of first-hand materials about the history of China’s modern diplomacy and compiled the first "History of Diplomacy of Modern China