(Vientiane History Special Author: Ling Kongzi)
[October 23, 2001] Monday Liang's short biography: Chen Yinke's most proud disciple, "Shameless You", was expelled from the division
On January 19, 1913, Zhou Liang was born in present-day Dongzhi, Anhui. The Zhou family was a large family of Scholars, and their great-grandfather was Zhou Fu (closely related to Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai) in the late Qing Dynasty. At the age of 8, Monday Liang entered a private school, through the history of the subset, touch the bypass. He received a good Western-style education from an early age, and in 1930 (17 books) he entered Yenching University and later into the History Department of Fu Jen University.
In 1935 (at the age of 22), after graduation, Zhou Liang entered the graduate school of Yenching University to study history. Zhou Liang studied the history of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, often went to Tsinghua University to observe Chen Yinke's lectures, and admired Chen Yinke. After graduation, Zhou Liang entered the Institute of History of the Academia Sinica and often exchanged letters with Chen Yinke to discuss difficulties.
In 1939 (at the age of 26), Zhou Liang went to the United States to study under the sponsorship of the Harvard Yenching Society. He studied in the Department of Far Eastern Languages at Harvard University, majoring in Japanese literature and studying Both Sanskrit and Buddhism. In 1944, he received his doctorate and returned to China to teach at Yenching University.
In 1947 (at the age of 34), he transferred to Tsinghua University and followed Chen Yinke. By 1949, he was a proud disciple who was "publicly recognized for passing on chen yinke's learning", and Zhou Liang himself was "determined to follow Mr. Chen's path". In addition to the history of the Wei and Jin dynasties, he has made outstanding achievements in many aspects of Chinese history, such as the history of Sino-foreign relations.
(Monday Liang and his wife Deng Yi in Plymouth, USA)
After the founding of New China, political movements were successively carried out, and Zhou Liang was also involved in the rolling revolutionary torrent. He accepted the intellectuals' ideological reform movement and accepted the Marxist-Leninist view of history. In 1951 (at the age of 38), Chen Yinke wrote a poem sarcastically: "Eight strands of article trial post poems, Zong Zhu SongSheng has a rule, the white-headed palace girl laughs haha, and the eyebrow-like article enters the time again." ”
In 1953, Zhou Liang published an article entitled "Western Sinology and Hu Shi", which slandered Hu Shi, who had once been close and respected, and called him a "cultural comprador". In 1954, he also participated in the national literary and art circles' huge criticism of Yu Pingbo's "Study of the Dream of the Red Chamber".
In 1958 (at the age of 45), during the "Great Leap Forward" to carry out academic criticism, Zhou Liang, who had been in the party for two years, responded to the call without hesitation and criticized his teacher Chen Yinke.
In his later years, he said to himself: "I never thought about how I would treat myself if I met Mr. Chen one day, or what I should do when I saw Mr. Chen underground." After this "criticism of Chen", I gradually and more deeply understood the greatness of Mr. Chen's scholarship. ”
In 1963 (at the age of 50), when Chen Yinke was compiling the "Series", he deleted the preface to the record of the relationship between the teacher and the student on Monday to show that he had broken off relations. Monday Liang once received an anonymous letter, the upper paragraph called "Monday Liang Dao Brother", the letter in large brush letters "Shameless You", the payment is "an old friend". In 1969, Chen Yinke died.
During the Cultural Revolution, Because of his family background, Zhou Liang was criticized for his family raids, wearing hats such as "anti-communist veterans", and his wife was sent to the May Seventh Cadre School. He has experienced countless large and small criticism meetings and has "had enough of personal insults."
After being persecuted, in 1974 (at the age of 61), he joined the Great Criticism Group of Peking University and Tsinghua University, the famous "Liang Xiao" Writing Group, to carry out the "Batch Forest And Batch Hole" movement.
In 1976, after the end of the Cultural Revolution, Monday Liang returned to his old business and continued his historical research. In 1980 (at the age of 67), he was subjected to a two-year political review and was publicly criticized at the Capital Gymnasium.
In 1986 (at the age of 73), after Retiring from Japan, He devoted himself to the study of Japanese history and read books for self-amusement. In 1998, Zhou Liang, who was in a wheelchair, published his autobiography "After all, he is a scholar", which deeply reflected on the changes in the past 50 years and publicly expressed his remorse.
In 1999 (at the age of 86), at the academic conference on the 110th anniversary of Chen Yinke's birth, he published "Asking Mr. Chen for His Guilt": "I believe that I, a disciple who has lost his way and returned home, will definitely not treat me with the punishment of breaking the door again in the future, but as before... Just like on the steamship of Tsinghua New West Courtyard and Pier 26 in Brooklyn, New York, Lingnan University Southeast District No. 1 is as harmonious and warm as that. ”
On October 23, 2001, Zhou Liang died at the age of 88.
(The 523rd work of the Vientiane History and Biography Writing Camp, and the 28th work of the camper "Lingkongzi")