Biography of Qian Mu

Qian Mu (July 30, 1895-August 30, 1990), the word Bin Si, pen name Gong Sha, Liang Yin, with forgetting, lonely clouds, late name Su Shu old man, Qifangqiao people, fasting name Su Shu Tang, Su Shu Lou. He was a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, and was a descendant of King Wusu of Wuzhu, the great ancestor of Wuzhi.

Famous historian, thinker and educator in modern China, he is an academician of Academia Sinica and a special researcher of the National Palace Museum. Chinese academics honored as "a generation of masters", some scholars even said that it is the last Chinese scholar, the nationalist master, and Lu Simian, Chen Yuan, Chen Yin Ke and known as the "four great masters of historiography".

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In Qian Mu's cultural sentiment and academic research, reflecting the synthesis of traditional scholar and modern scholar. and the synthesis of modern scholars. On the one hand, his academic research has a strong cultural commitment. This kind of cultural attitude with a sense of worry highlights the responsibility of the scholar for the times. On the other hand, his cultural sentiment is based on rational and scientific academic research.

Compared with the scholars represented by Kang Youwei, who distorted the facts for the sake of "viewpoints", Qian Mu carried forward the fine tradition of "examining names and facts, relying on supporting evidence, abstaining from delusion, and washing Chinese words" in the Qian and Jia academics. In comparison with Qian Mu, who carried forward the fine tradition of "examining names and facts, emphasizing supporting evidence, refraining from false implication, and washing Chinese rhetoric" in Qianjia scholarship, Qian Mu played an important role in demonstrating the development of traditional scholarship to modern humanities.

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