Lonely Chen Yinque

Author: Liu Bin et al.
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Chen Yinque, a renowned historian, studied in Japan, Germany, Switzerland, France, the United States, and other countries, and was proficient in multiple Eastern and Western languages and scripts, including Sanskrit, Turkic, and Manchu. After returning to China, he taught at several universities such as the Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies. In the late 1940s, he moved from Beijing to Guangdong and later accepted a position and taught at Lingnan University until his unfortunate passing during the Cultural Revolution. Throughout his life, Chen Yinque left behind a vast body of works covering fields such as history, literature, and religion, opening up new academic areas and providing new research methods for later generations. Since the Republic of China, he has been widely respected and esteemed by the academic community. Based on an in-depth review of relevant materials, the authors of this book systematically organize and concisely introduce Chen Yinque's life journey and academic achievements. Particularly through the excavation of poetic manuscripts and correspondence, they offer a reinterpretation of Chen Yinque's later life and provide a critical perspective on previous academic research.