Ch'ien Mu (30 July 1895-), scholar, known for his works on Chinese intellectual history and philosophy and for his history textbook, Kuo-shih ta-kang. From 1951 to 1965 he served as president of New Asia College in Hong Kong. A native of Wusih, Kiangsu, Ch'ien Mu was born into a poor family. His father died when […]

K'ang Yu-wei (19 March 1858-31 March 1927), leader of the reform movement that culminated in the ill-fated Hundred Days Reform of 1898 and prominent scholar of the chin-wen [new text] school of the Confucian classics. The elder son of an expectant district magistrate, K'ang Yu-%vei was born in a village in Nanhai (Namhoi), a district […]