Qian Mu

Author: Yin Yongqing
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: In Jiangnan, the Qian family is widely distributed, with the main concentration in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. In terms of social status and economic influence, the Qian family is an ordinary family. However, as a member of the Chinese scholar-gentry family, the Qian family is an important foundation of Chinese society and an indispensable component of traditional Chinese culture. The rise and fall of the Qian family across generations reflect, from one perspective, the traces of modern Chinese social development and shed light on the arduous journey of Chinese intellectuals in their concerns for the nation and its people. Understanding the development of a nation's society and culture through the history of an ordinary intellectual family is one of the key reasons for writing about the Qian family. From Mr. Qian Mu's perspective, his academic pursuits and scholarly activities in the fields of Chinese history and culture over the past century also reflect the evolution of modern Chinese academia. The writing of this book takes Mr. Binsi's life experiences as the main thread, connecting three generations of the Qian family. The materials on the grandfather and father are mostly drawn from Mr. Binsi's Eighty Years Remembering My Parents, while the third generation focuses on Qian Weichang, the eldest son of Qian Shengyi.