Jian Bozan -- A Critical Biography of His Academic Thought

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 in Taoyuan County, Hunan, where his family lived in a large clan. He was persecuted to death by counter-revolutionaries such as Qi Benyu during the Cultural Revolution in 1968 at the age of 70. The book, excluding the preface, introduction, and appendix, presents Qian Bozan's academic activities, intellectual origins, academic works, and his significant status and profound influence in academia through eleven chapters titled "Life, Character, and Writings," "Academic Interactions," "A Monument in the Academic History of Materialist Historicism—A Course in the Philosophy of History," "Farmers Themselves Remained a Feudal Class," and "Conquest and Assimilation Are Basic Forms of Ethnic Interaction Under Given Historical Conditions."