Qian Liqun

Qian Liqun

Qian Liqun (January 30, 1939 -), male, born in Chongqing, native to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is a senior professor and doctoral supervisor of Chinese Department of Peking University. He is also an adjunct professor of Chinese Department of Tsinghua University, vice president of Chinese Modern Literature Research Association, director of Lu Xun society of China, and the third editor in chief of Chinese Modern Literature Research Series (with Wu Fuhui).

He is mainly engaged in the study of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren and the spiritual history of modern intellectuals. His representative works include the search for the soul, meeting with Lu Xun, biography of Zhou Zuoren, on Zhou Zuoren, between big and small stages -- a new discussion on Cao Yu's drama, rich pain -- the eastward shift of Don Quixote and Hamlet, 1948: the mystery of heaven and earth, etc.

One of the most influential humanists in China since the 1980s. His profound study of Chinese thought, literature and society in the 20th century, especially his examination of the history and spirit of Chinese intellectuals in the 20th century, has been valued and respected at home and abroad.

Qian Liqun has always been concerned about education, and many of them have written about it. He is regarded as a symbol of contemporary Chinese critical intellectuals.

Character experience

Born in Chongqing in 1939.

In 1948, he published his first work, if I had a pair of wings, in children's weekly of Central Daily.

In 1950, he was admitted to the high school attached to Nanjing Normal University and studied here for six years.

In 1956, he was admitted to the Journalism Department of Chinese Department of Peking University. In 1958, he joined the Journalism Department of Renmin University of China and graduated in 1960.

In 1960, he left Beijing and went to Guizhou to teach in Anshun health school and Anshun normal school.

In 1978, he was admitted to Peking University as a graduate student majoring in literature. He studied modern literature under the guidance of Mr. Wang Yao and Mr. Yan Jiayan. He graduated in 1981 with a master's degree in literature. He has been teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor and professor.

In 2002, he retired from Peking University and transferred to middle school. He continued to pay attention to middle school and rural education. At the same time, he turned to the study of the history of modern folk thought, concerned about the study of local culture and the youth volunteer movement.

On September 9, 2012, at a memorial meeting of a middle school teacher, Qian Liqun issued a "farewell education" declaration, saying that he would care about education "outside education" in the future.

family background

Qian Liqun was once rated as the "top 10 most popular teachers" by Peking University students. He was born in a scholarly family.

Grandfather: Xiang Lansheng (Xiang Caixin), experienced a lot, from the late Qing Dynasty to the revolution of 1911 to his death in 1959. As a reformer, he first set up a vernacular newspaper and an'ing school in Hangzhou, and then served as the official section chief of zhelu company. Running schools, running newspapers and building roads were the first of the times. Later, he became the Secretary of the Bank of Qing Dynasty.

Father: Qian Tianhe (1893-1972) was the fifth graduate of Anding school. His grandfather married his eldest daughter to his favorite student. He graduated from the Agricultural College of Cornell University. In 1919, he returned to China and became professor of agriculture and director of sericulture Department of Jinling University. He was the director of the Social Education Department of the Ministry of education of the national government and the director of the Museum of Academia Sinica. After graduating from Tsinghua University, he went to the United States to study agriculture at Cornell University in 1906 or 1908. Hu Shi also studied agriculture there, and Qian Fu became Hu Shi's classmate.

Mother: Xiang Hao (1900-1974), born in Hangzhou, died of illness in Nanjing, was the eldest daughter of Xiang Lansheng. Having been educated in western style since childhood, Xiang Lansheng asked her English teacher to teach her English.

Elder brother: Qian Ning (1922-1986), expert on sediment movement and riverbed evolution. He was a professor of Water Conservancy Department of Tsinghua University. He was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Third brother: Qian linsan (1924-1990), graduated from the Department of foreign affairs of the Central Political University during the period of the Republic of China. He graduated in 1947 and was admitted to the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of China. He changed to business in 1961.

Qian Shubai (1926-2012), the fourth elder brother, secretly joined the Communist Party of China in Nanyang Model middle school in 1945. He was admitted to the Agricultural College of Jinling University in 1946 and participated in the "520" student movement. He has successively served as member of the liangpu district Party committee and Minister of youth, director of the publicity section and office of the Nanjing municipal Party committee of the Communist Youth League, and deputy director of the learning room of the Publicity Department of the Nanjing municipal Party committee.

Qian Shurong (1928-1983), the second elder sister, joined the Communist Party of China during her high school study in Shanghai Nanyang middle school. Later, he transferred to the northern Jiangsu base and worked in the propaganda team of the third division of the New Fourth Army. Later, he studied in the Central Academy of drama. After graduation, he worked as an actor and creator in the drama company of the General Political Department of the Chinese people's Liberation Army.

His second brother-in-law Ding Yi (1921-1997), a playwright, joined the Communist Party of China in 1936. In 1942, he joined the literature department of Yan'an Lu Xun art and Literature College. Later, he served as the head of the Northeast Democratic United Army's column and the army's literary and artistic troupe. His main works include the opera white haired girl (co authored with he Jingzhi) and Dong Cunrui (co authored with Ding Hong).

According to Mr. Qian, his family background determines the basic position of his research: "because there are both national party members and Communist Party members in my family, and in my feeling, they are all good people, and I dare say they are all the best intellectuals in China. In the 1920s, the best intellectuals in junior high school came to the Kuomintang, and in the 1930s and 1940s, the best came to the Communist Party. My father joined the Kuomintang in order to save the country, and my brother and sister joined the Communist Party in order to fight for democracy and freedom. I want to write about the complexity of history. "

Representative works

Monographs and anthologies

< ol > < li > "thirty years of modern Chinese Literature" (in cooperation with Wu Fuhui, Wen Rumin, etc.), published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House in 1987, revised in 1998, and published by Peking University Press. < li > < li > "the search for the soul" was published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House in July 1988. < li > < li > "three men's talks on Chinese literature in the 20th century" (in cooperation with Huang Ziping and Chen Pingyuan), published by people's Literature Press in September 1988. The biography of Zhou Zuoren was published by Beijing October literature and Art Publishing House in August 1990. On Zhou Zuoren was published by Shanghai People's Publishing House in August 1991. < / Li > < li > "heart for the Yellow River: famous sediment expert Qian Ning" was published by science popularization press in September 1991. < li > < li > "the rich pain: Don Quixote and Hamlet's move eastward" was published by time literature and art press in May 1993. < li > < li > "human suffering" was published by Zhejiang People's Publishing House in September 1993. < li > < li > "between big and small stages: a new discussion on Cao Yu's drama" was published by Zhejiang literature and Art Publishing House in October 1994. < li > < li > "the history of Chinese literature in pictorial edition" (in cooperation with Dong Naibin and Wu Xiaodong), Xiangyun (USA) publishing company, July 1995. < li > < li > "Rereading of masterpieces" (anthology) Shanghai Education Press, July 1996 edition, January 2006 Shanghai Education Press, 2nd Edition. < li > < li > "spiritual purgatory: the course of modern Chinese literature from the May 4th movement to the Anti Japanese War" (Collected Papers) was published by Guangxi Education Press in 1996. < li > < li > "grave on the heart" (Essays) was published by Sichuan people's Publishing House in 1994. < li > < li > reflections at the end of the century (Essays) was published by Hebei People's Publishing House in 1997. < li > < li > "1948: the mystery of heaven and earth" was published by Shandong Education Press in 1997. < li > < li > recasting the soul of learning (Essays) was published by Wenhui publishing house in January 1999. Refusal to forget: Selected Works of Qian Liqun (Essays), Shantou University Press, May 1999, 420000 words. < li > < li > "dialogue and roaming: a study of novels in the 1940s" (anthology) Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, August 1999. < li > < li > sixty robberies (Essays) Fujian Education Press, August 1999. < / Li > < li > "talking about the Zhou brothers: a speech at Peking University" (Monograph) Shandong pictorial press, September 1999. < li > < li > "Lu Xun in the present age" (anthology) Peking University Press, November 1999. < li > < li > "reflection and reconstruction: research and writing of literary history" (anthology) Shanghai Education Press, March 2000. < li > < li > reading Zhou Zuoren (Collected Papers) Tianjin Ancient Books Publishing House, October 2001. < li > < li > "on Chinese education outside the door" (Collected Papers) Guangxi Normal University Press, July 2003. < li > < li > "meet Lu Xun" (Monograph) Sanlian bookstore, August 2003. < li > < li > "fifteen lectures on Lu Xun's works" (Monograph) Peking University Press, September 2003. In November 2007, with the title of fifteen lessons of Lu Xun's works, it was published by Taiwan Wunan Book Publishing Co., Ltd. < / Li > < li > "I exist, I work hard" (Essays) Heilongjiang People's publishing house, January 2004 edition. After a long journey: Lu Xun's acceptance history

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