Chen Yuan
Chen Yuan
Chen Yuan (1918-2004), a native of Xinhui, Guangdong Province. He is a member of the Communist Party of China. Chinese linguist, publisher, Esperanto expert. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he successively served as deputy manager of China International bookstore, director of Sanlian bookstore and deputy general manager of people's publishing house. Later, he served as deputy director of the Publishing Bureau of the Ministry of culture, general manager and consultant of the Commercial Press, deputy director of the national language and writing working committee, director of the Institute of language and writing application of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, first and second vice chairman of the China Association of publishers, vice chairman of the all China Esperanto Association, and International Council of the world society of cybernetics, information theory and systems theory (takis) Vice president, member of the Supreme Council of the International Academy of Sciences (AIS), and director of the National Committee on language and writing.
Chronology of people
Born in Xinhui, Guangdong on May 23, 1918.
His works began to be published in 1936.
He graduated from the Department of civil engineering, School of technology, Sun Yat sen University in 1938.
He joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1949.
Since the 1930s, he has worked in Xinzhi bookstore, life bookstore and Sanlian Bookstore successively.
In the early 1940s, Chen Yuan, in his 20s, wrote two practical books in Guilin: a guide to learning foreign languages and English classified vocabulary.
After 1949, he held leading positions in Sanlian bookstore, world knowledge publishing house, people's publishing house, international bookstore, National Publishing Bureau and Commercial Press. His series of Chinese translation of world famous academic works has attracted wide attention of academic circles, educational circles and readers.
In August 1951, Sanlian bookstore was withdrawn and merged into the people's publishing house. After that, Sanlian Bookstore department was established in the people's publishing house. Chen Yuan served as the director of the Department. He was not only the deputy general manager and director of Sanlian, but also the deputy general manager of the world Knowledge Publishing House.
He joined the Communist Party of China in 1953.
In 1955, at the initiative of Zeng Yanxiu and Wang ziye, Chen Yuan was responsible for drafting some working systems in the people's publishing house, which was known as the "fundamental law" of publishing house work at that time.
From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, he mainly engaged in language research.
In 1979, in business, he was officially appointed general manager, general manager and Secretary of the Party committee.
After the 1980s, he took part in various academic activities at home and abroad. He has successively served as the director of the Institute of language and characters application of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, deputy director of the National Committee for terminology standardization, vice chairman of the China Association of publishers, consultant of the Commercial Press, director of the national language and characters Working Committee, etc.
Sociolinguistics, published in 1983.
In 1984, Chen Yuan was transferred from business and appointed to preside over the work of the Chinese language and writing Commission. However, he is still working as a business consultant and continues to focus on the planning of foreign academic masterpieces.
In the middle of August 1988, he went to Beidaihe for a holiday with his wife Yu Di and business workers.
In 2001, Mr. Chen Yuan was invited to Hong Kong.
On October 26, 2004, Chen died of illness.
On November 4, 2006, the commemoration meeting for the second anniversary of Chen Yuan's death was held in Hanfen building of the commercial press. People from publishing circles, linguists and Chen Yuan's family gathered together to express their nostalgia for Chen Yuan, a famous contemporary Chinese linguist and publisher.
Academic contribution
Chen Yuan has a wide influence in the cultural, academic and publishing circles. He once served as the director of the state language and writing Commission, Secretary of the Party group, and general manager of the commercial press. He once presided over and participated in the formulation of China's first large-scale dictionary publishing plan, planned and led the publication of modern Chinese dictionary, Chinese English dictionary, etymology and other dictionaries, and wrote many works. Since the 1930s, Chen Yuan has been engaged in publishing, Latinization and Esperanto Movement. He also studies international politics, economy, geography and language. He has some translations and works. In the 1950s and 1960s, he mainly led the publishing industry. He studied sociolinguistics and lexicography to restore its objective, scientific and humanistic features. During this period, he constantly searched for "real people with independent personality and independent thinking" among his predecessors. He found Zhang Yuanji, Hu Yuzhi, Roman Roland, and finally Zhao Yuanren. Chen Yuan understood that Zhao Yuanren organically combined the heart of serving the country with humanistic spirit.
1、 The contribution of publishing industry
1. Lexicography
Chen Yuan has rich experience in compiling dictionaries. He has a set of systematic theories, such as "drawing a line between right and wrong in the work of dictionaries". This is his speech at the working conference on the revision of etymology in 1977, which was later included in his published works. This speech can be used as a textbook for compiling dictionaries. He made a theoretical summary of the principles of compiling dictionaries. His speech is rich in language and strong in logic.
Since March 1974, Yao Wenyuan, taking the "Liaoyuan Coal Mine review group" as the starting point, launched a great criticism movement against the modern Chinese dictionary in the cultural circle, saying that it has a tendency to respect Confucius, interferes with the direction of criticizing Confucius, is a hodgepodge of fengzixiu, is a resurgence of revisionism, is a reactionary trend of thought of capitalist restoration, and so on. Mr. Chen Yuan is under great pressure that others can't imagine. However, he was not frightened by the arrogance of these curfew, and remained calm and stubborn. The great criticism did not stop him. It was in this era of class struggle and a large number of modern Chinese dictionaries that his famous argument about distinguishing right from wrong in dictionary work came into being. He asked business comrades to put tens of thousands of dictionaries in storage and seal them up skillfully. Soon after the fall of the gang of four, these dictionaries came out of the library at the right time. This is enough to show his wisdom and foresight.
Chinese translation of world famous academic works series
2. Preside over the publication of "Chinese translation of world famous academic works series"
Another contribution of Chen Yuan in publishing work is to organize the publishing of foreign academic works. It has always been the task of the commercial press to introduce western masterpieces to Chinese readers. Before the founding of the people's Republic of China, the commercial press did a lot of work. Chen Yuan began to work in the people's publishing house, and later transferred to the Publishing Bureau of the Ministry of culture. After the cultural revolution, he was sent to the commercial press. Bring order out of chaos, open up the wisdom of the people and rebuild the Chinese nation's personality. This is the ideal experimental site for the remolding of the Chinese nation's personality. He presided over the publication of the book entitled "the world famous literary work in Chinese translation", which aims to "accumulate the essence of the times civilization," accumulated by the people of a time, a nation, a class, a pioneer of a trend of thought, "to the future generations to go to the examination and to examine." To censor, to nourish. ".
After Chen Yuan went to business, he made a huge plan, including works from three sources of Marxism, works from the Enlightenment period of capitalist countries, as well as theories of modern and modern schools. There are 1614 kinds of plans on a large scale. Before the "Cultural Revolution", there was a part, but after 10 years of turmoil, the planning was forced to stop. Chen Yuan was also involved in the formulation of the plan. In the early 1970s, Chen Yuan was sent into business. After the cultural revolution, Chen Yuan focused on this work. He has sorted out the past single editions of such books, including those published in business before liberation. After sorting out, Chen originally named them "series of world famous works translated into Chinese", which covers philosophy, politics, economy and history from ancient to modern times in the West. He believes that the authors of these books are pioneers and representatives of an era, a nation, a stage and a trend of thought, and their influence is self-evident. Over the years, more than 400 books have been published. Chen Yuan has contributed to the development and relay of this important project.
In 1984, Chen Yuan was transferred from business and appointed to preside over the work of the Chinese language and writing Commission. However, he is still working as a business consultant and continues to focus on the planning of foreign academic masterpieces. On March 14 of the same year, Comrade Hu Qiaomu reported his work to Comrade Deng Xiaoping. Comrade Deng Xiaoping proposed to systematically translate and publish foreign academic masterpieces. The transmission of this speech caused great shock in the publishing and intellectual circles. On behalf of the Commercial Press, Chen Yuan held a series of meetings of scholars and translators to discuss the business re planning and implement the spirit of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's instructions. He believes that Shang and Deng affairs should regard this as "an overwhelming task, an indisputable task. The whole library should make clear the importance of this task and try to complete it." To this end, we have invited celebrities from the academic circles to discuss for many times, and held a large-scale academic conference in Xiangshan to discuss how to make long-term plans and how to select books and translate them. Inside the Commercial Press, he mobilized all the comrades in the library to offer suggestions.
As for how to write the preface of western academic masterpieces, Chen Yuan emphasized that the quality of the preface should be improved. He believes that to be academic, "don't swear, don't flatter, there must be an academic atmosphere." For the western modern academic, we should pay attention to the rigorous treatment, and also pay attention to the way of distribution. The preface should be written in accordance with the spirit of Comrade Xiaoping's instructions.
3. Create a column in reading magazine
In the 1980s, Mr. Chen Yuan opened a column in Beijing's Dushu magazine, called in the dense forest of words, which is simple, wonderful, humorous and highly readable. Later, he compiled his column into a book, which is almost the same in Beijing reading circles.
4. Planning and publishing the complete works of Zhao Yuanren
In 1990, Mr. Chen Yuan retired from the position of director of the state language and writing working committee and chose to work as a business consultant. He is still energetic, thinking is still agile, for the development of business advice. Zhao Yuanren's complete works, 20 million words in 20 volumes, is a major publishing plan that he recommended and personally planned for business at the age of 80. As early as 19
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