Biographical Review of the Academic Thought of Jian Bozan

Author: Wang Xuedian
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Publish Date: 2000-02-01
Features: This book is one of the "Biographies of Famous Chinese Scholars in the 20th Century" series edited by the renowned scholar Dai Yi. Qian Bozan was a famous historian of China. He was born in 1898 in a Uyghur village called Jianjiafengshugang, located in Taoyuan County, Hunan, where his family lived in a large cluster. He was persecuted to death by counter-revolutionary elements like Qi Benyu during the Cultural Revolution in 1968, at the age of 70. The book, in addition to the preface, introduction, and appendix, presents Qian Bozan's life and academic activities, intellectual origins, academic works, and his significant status and profound influence in academia through eleven chapters titled "Life, Character, and Works," "Academic Interactions," "A Monument in the Academic History of Materialist Historicism—The Historical Philosophy Tutorial," "Farmers Themselves Remained a Feudal Class," and "Conquest and Assimilation Are Fundamental Forms of Ethnic Interaction Under Given Historical Conditions."