Ch'ien Hsuan-t'ung (12 September 1887-17 January 1939), applied the critical methods of Hu Shih to the study of Chinese classical texts. He taught for many years at Peking University, where he contributed articles to the Hsin ch'ing-nien [new youth] and served as one of its editors. He was also a leader in the movement to […]

Ma Hsü-lun ( 27 April 1884-), educator, revolutionary, and government official, was a professor of Chinese philosophy at Peking University in 1916-36. He became sympathetic to the Communist cause during the Sino- Japanese war, and he was named minister of education when the Central People's Government was established in 1949. From 1952 to 1954 he […]

Fan Wen-Ian (1891-), the most prominent Marxist historian in Communist China and the director of the institute for the study of modern history of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Peking. Little is known of Fan Wen-lan's family background or his childhood except that his native place was Shaohsing, Chekiang, and that he was a […]