Huang K'an T. Chi-kang m Huang K'an (1886-8 October 1935), philologist and poet, noted for his studies of the Wen-hsin tiao-lung of Liu Hsieh and the Jih-chih-lu of Ku Yen-wu. Ch'ich'un, Hupeh, was the birthplace of Huang K'an. He was the youngest son of Huang Yun-ku, the salt and tea intendant, and later the acting […]

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 […]