Chen Hengzhe

Chen Hengzhe

Chen Hengzhe (1890-1976), pseudonym Sophia h.z.chen, native to Hengshan, Hunan Province, went to the United States after he was admitted to Tsinghua University to study in the United States in 1914. He successively studied western history and Western literature at Vassar College and the University of Chicago, and obtained bachelor's and master's degrees.

In 1920, he was employed as a professor of Peking University, teaching Western history; he married Ren Hongjun on September 27, 1920; later, he worked in the Commercial Press, National Southeast University and Sichuan University; he wrote short story collection xiaoyudian, essays of Hengzhe, history of the Renaissance, western history and Autobiography of a Chinese woman; after the founding of the people's Republic of China, he served as a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, and went to Shanghai in 1976 She is the earliest female scholar, writer and poet in China's new culture movement, and also the first female professor in China“

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Character experience

In 1911, he entered the Shanghai Patriotic girls' school run by Cai Yuanpei. Far away from her parents and uncle, a young girl has been struggling alone in Shanghai for 10 years. She has undergone various exercises in her life and society, and has been fighting for her own independence and autonomy. She resisted the arranged marriage of her father, and also refused the young grandmother who was offered by others to be a dignitary. She created a happy love life. She has been to several schools and has a solid foundation in English.

In 1914, Tsinghua University recruited students to study in the United States in Shanghai. She passed the entrance examination and got the opportunity to go abroad for further study. She studied western history and literature at Vassar College and the University of Chicago. She had a personal experience of Western science and culture, democracy and freedom, and obtained bachelor's and master's degrees successively. After a lot of contact with and in-depth study of Western ideology and culture, she is unique and insightful in academic and ideological aspects. She has changed the rare reality of female scholars and thinkers in modern Chinese history, and has become a famous talented woman with sharp thinking and distinctive style.

After returning to China in 1920, he became a professor of Western history at Peking University. She is the first female master and professor in Chinese history. Later, he served as a professor of history in National Southeast University and national Sichuan University, worked in Shanghai Commercial Press, and wrote academic works such as western history, Renaissance history and Renaissance history, which had a great influence on Modern Chinese academic history. She was the first woman writer to write in vernacular in the new literature movement of China. At the beginning of the 20th century, with her unique grasp of Chinese language and keen perception of social life, she wrote brilliantly and cheered for the new literature.

In 1917, she wrote her first novel "one day" in American vernacular, which vividly reflected the life of American Female Freshmen in a day and was published in the quarterly of students studying in the United States.

From 1917 to 1926, under the pseudonym of "Shafei", she created many works, such as "little rain point", "canal and Yangtze River", which were published in new youth, novel monthly and other major new literature journals, and had a great social impact. Her 34 year old essay "the canal and the Yangtze River" expresses the author's feelings and spirit of advocating struggle through the confrontation and confrontation between the two outlooks on life, namely, the canal and the Yangtze River. It can be seen as a true portrayal of her life attitude of striving and not sparing others' gifts.

After the September 18th Incident in 1931, Chen Hengzhe angrily called to boycott the Japanese. Six years later, the Anti Japanese war broke out in full swing. With her three sons and daughters, she fled from Peking to Lushan,

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At that time, he was on the mountain to attend the Lushan talks hosted by Chiang Kai Shek. Soon after, the Japanese invaded the south. Chen Hengzhe's family fled to Guangzhou and finally arrived in Hong Kong. Unexpectedly, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong was occupied. Chen Hengzhe had to take his children aboard the French sea liner. In 1942, he went back to Chongqing Jiangbei Renjia garden, and the whole family finally got together.

Chen Hengzhe lived in Chongqing intermittently for five years, the longest time. In early 1943, she visited Hongyan village at the invitation of Zhou Enlai.

Ren erning, nephew of Chen Hengzhe, said: "when I was a child in Shanghai, Sanniang mu (Chen Hengzhe) told me that she admired two people most in her life. One was her husband

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The other is Zhou Enlai On the day of going to Hongyan village, Chen Hengzhe drove to Hualong bridge by jeep driven by Ren erning's father Ren Baipeng, and then arrived at Hongyan village by sliding rod. Zhou Enlai had been waiting there. When he saw Chen Hengzhe, he warmly welcomed him and said, "Mr. Chen, I'm your student. I've heard your lessons and read your books."

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he was a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. On January 7, 1976, Chen Hengzhe, 86 years old, died of pneumonia and complications in Shanghai.

Main works

Chinese PinYin : Chen Heng Zhe