Shen Changwen (1931-2021)
On January 10, Shen Changwen, the publisher, the former general manager of Life, Reading and Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore and the former editor-in-chief of Reading Magazine, died in Beijing at the age of 90 in his sleep.
Shen Changwen, whose ancestral home is Ningbo, Zhejiang, was born in Shanghai and has been engaged in editing and publishing for 70 years. From 1980 until his retirement in 1995, he also served as the head and editor-in-chief of Reading Magazine, making it an influential publication in the ideological, academic and cultural circles.
In an interview with reporters in 2013, he once told reporters, "My dream is four words - no disease." "It's a wish.
Cai Hongsheng (1933-2021)
On February 15, historian and professor at Sun Yat-sen University, Cai Hongsheng, died in Guangzhou at the age of 88. Cai Hongsheng, whose ancestral home is Chenghai, Guangdong, was born in Shantou in 1933. Under the guidance of Chen Yinke, Cen Zhongmian and other historians, he has long been engaged in the teaching and research of the history of Sino-foreign relations, and has many creative views on medieval China and foreign civilizations, sino-Russian economic and cultural relations in the Qing Dynasty, and the history of Lingnan maritime history. His major works include "Nine Surnames Hu and Turkic Culture in the Tang Dynasty", "Chronicle of the Russian Pavilion", "Strategy of the Buddhist Gate in Lingnan in the Early Qing Dynasty", "Examination of the History of Cultural Exchanges between China and Foreign Countries", "Looking Up to Chen Yinke", "Theory and Method", etc.
In an interview with the newspaper in 2018, he said: "Our historical research should be cold, not hot, and the research is calm, personal, and undisturbed by people, which is the characteristic of spiritual production."
Wu Xiangzhou (1962-2021)
On April 2, Wu Xiangzhou, a scholar of ancient literature and a professor at the School of Humanities at Guangzhou University, died in Beijing at the age of 59. Wu Xiangzhou was born in 1962 in Jinzhou, Liaoning. He was the president of the Lefu Society and the vice president of the Chinese Tang Dynasty Literature Society. He is good at tang dynasty literature and lefu studies, and is the founder and important promoter of contemporary lefu studies.
He has presided over the National Social Science Foundation project "Research on the Relationship between Yongming Body and Music", and published "Introduction to Lefu Studies", "Lefu Studies", "Tang Dynasty Songs and Poems and Poetry", "Research on the Relationship between Tang Poetry Creation and Song and Poetry Transmission", etc.
Shu Yi (1935-2021)
On April 21, Shu Yi, the former director of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, a social activist and the son of Mr. Lao She, died in Beijing at the age of 86. Shu Yi, a native of Beijing, was born in Qingdao in 1935. His literary creation is mainly based on prose and biography, and he is also engaged in the study of modern Chinese literary works. He is the author of "Scattered Memories of Lao She", "Lao She", "Father's Last Two Days", "Lao She's Barriers and Hobbies" and so on.
As the son of Lao She, Shu Yi said: "I am very sad, and I am also very lucky."
He Zhaowu (1921-2021)
On May 28, Historian, intellectual and cultural historian, translator, and professor of history at Tsinghua University's School of Humanities, He Zhaowu, died in Beijing at the age of 99. He Zhaowu, born in Beijing in 1921, studied at Southwest United University in his early years. He has long been engaged in the study of historical theory, historical philosophy and intellectual history, as well as the translation of Western classic works, and enjoys a high reputation in the academic community. He has participated in the writing of the "General History of Chinese Thought", authored "He Zhaowu's Academic and Cultural Essays", "Reed Grass Collection", "He Zhaowu's Collected Writings", "School History", etc., and translated Russell's "History of Western Philosophy (Part I)", Rousseau's "Social Contract", Pascal's "Record of Thought" and many other Western classics, benefiting generations of scholars.
Zhang Kaiyuan (1926-2021)
On May 28, historian, educator and former president of Central China Normal University, Zhang Kaiyuan, died in Wuhan at the age of 95. Zhang Kaiyuan, whose ancestral home is Wuxing, Zhejiang, was born in 1926 in Wuhu, Anhui. He has devoted his life to the cause of higher education in China and made outstanding contributions in the fields of academic research, university construction, talent training, cultural exchanges between China and the West, and social services. He has made important pioneering and leading contributions in many fields, such as the study of the history of the Xinhai Revolution, the study of the Chinese bourgeoisie, and the history of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and has authored the "History of the Xinhai Revolution".
In the "Oral Autobiography of Zhang Kaiyuan", he said: "I have always greatly appreciated the following famous words of Dai Zhen, the great Confucian of the Qing Dynasty, and regarded them as my motto: Governing learning is not a flattering language, and seeking the truth alone to enlighten future generations."
Xu Yuanchong (1921-2021)
On June 17, Xu Yuanchong, a translator and professor at Peking University, died in Beijing at the age of 100. Xu Yuanchong, born in 1921 in Nanchang, Jiangxi, graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages of Southwest United University in 1943. Engaged in literary translation for more than 60 years, the translation covers Chinese, English, French and other languages, the translation focuses on the English translation of ancient Chinese poetry, forming the method and theory of rhyming translation of poetry, known as "the only person who translates poetry into English and France". He has published more than 100 translations in Chinese, English and French at home and abroad. He has won the Lifetime Achievement Award of Chinese Translation Culture, the Outstanding Literary Translation Award of the International Union of Translators "Northern Lights", etc.
For Shakespeare's classic To be, or not to be (survival or destruction), Xu Lao insisted on translating it as "do you want to live like this" or not. Of course, not without controversy.
Albino (1930-2021)
On July 6, Bai Huawen, a Dunhuang scholar and professor at Peking University, died in Beijing at the age of 91. Albino Was born in Beijing in 1930. He has been engaged in research in the fields of Buddhism, Dunhuang Studies, Classical Chinese Literature, Bibliography, and Japanese Sinology for many years, and has profound achievements. He has published more than 30 monographs such as "Introduction to the Catalogue of Dunhuang Cultural Relics", "Refraction of Buddha's Light", and "Brief Explanation of Chinese Buddhist Ritual Instruments and Costumes". The old man was humorous and open-minded, and once warned the students: "The last point is that the body should be good." Dunhuang studies is equal to half an archaeology, and it is necessary to often run in the wild and be able to resist tossing. ”
Hu Xudong (1974-2021)
On August 22, the poet Hu Xudong, an associate professor at Peking University's School of Foreign Chinese, died in Beijing at the age of 47. Hu Xudong, formerly known as Hu Xudong, born in Chongqing in 1974, is regarded as one of the representative figures of poets born in the 1970s, and is the author of the poetry collection "Milk of the Wind", "Travel/Poetry", the prose collection "Floating Huyan", "Go to His Brazil" and so on.
Peng Pan news evaluation: Hu Xudong's poetry personal style is very strong, with obvious recognition. It is hard not to read his poetry without noticing his playfulness, ironic rhetoric, and great desire to contemplate reality. The poetry circle laments that "there is one less vivid and interesting person" (poet Zhu Yu).
Ye Tingfang (1936-2021)
On September 27, Ye Tingfang, a translator and researcher at the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, died in Beijing at the age of 85. Ye Tingfang, born in 1936 in Quxian County, Zhejiang Province, is an authoritative scholar of Chinese German literature and Kafka studies. He lost his left arm at an early age, but he continued to improve himself and struggled with one arm for life. He has translated "Selected Comedies of Dürrenmatt", "The Old Woman Returns Home", "Kafka Literary Brief", "Kafka Letter Diary", "Kafka Essay Collection", etc., and has written more than 30 works such as "Explorer of Modern Art", "Kafka, father of modern literature", "The Awakening of Modern Aesthetic Consciousness", "Sisyphus's Modern Archetype", "On Paradox" and so on.
The editor-in-chief of World Literature happily commented: Ye Tingfang's greatest contribution in the field of foreign literature is to comprehensively and deeply translate Kafka into China.
Xu chengbei (1942-2021)
On October 11, Xu Chengbei, a researcher at the Institute of Drama of the China Academy of Arts, died in Beijing at the age of 79. Xu Chengbei, born in Chongqing in 1942 and raised in Beijing, worked as a screenwriter at the Peking Opera House in China before moving on to academic research. Xu Chengbei is good at the study of Peking Opera art and Beijing culture, and is the author of "Old Beijing: Imperial Relics", "Old Beijing: Strange Folk Styles in Alleys", "Old Beijing: Variations of the Front Door", "Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth Century", "Peking Opera and Chinese Culture", etc.
Many people may not know that Xu Chengbei's parents are Xu Ying and Peng Zigang, famous reporters of the Ta Kung Pao.
Li Zehou (1930-2021)
On the morning of November 2, the philosopher Li Zehou died in the United States. Li Zehou, a native of Ningxiang, Hunan, was born in June 1930. In 1950, he was admitted to the Department of Philosophy of Peking University and entered the Academy of Social Sciences after graduation. In the 1980s, Li Zehou successively published "Criticism of Critical Philosophy", "The Course of Beauty", and three books on the history of Chinese thought, etc., becoming the spiritual leader of China's ideological circles, and his works are the desk books of a generation of young students and scholars. Li Zehou put forward many new questions, propositions, discourses, etc., such as "Confucianism and Taoism Complementarity", "Culture-Psychological Structure", "Ideological Accumulation", "Double Variation", "Musical Culture", "Practical Rationality", etc., which had an important impact on Chinese intellectual circles.
There are also the names of many who have left, which deserve our memory -
Cai Meibiao (1928-2021) Historian, Member of the Honorary Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences / Su Guoxun (1942-2021) Social Theorist and Sociologist / Ruan Xihu (1927-2021) Social Anthropologist, Scholar of World Ethnic Studies
Fei Zhengang (1935-2021) Literary historian, Han Fu research expert, professor of Peking University / Hu Wenbin (1939-2021) red scholar, deputy director of the 1987 tv series "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Liu Shinan (1923-2021) is an expert in literature and history, a poet, a professor at Jiangxi Normal University / Zhu Lei (1937-2021) historian and professor at the School of History of Wuhan University
Chen Zhangtai (1932-2021) Linguist, first president of the Chinese Society of Applied Linguistics / ......