Jian Bozan
Jian, Bozan, (simplified Chinese: 翦伯赞; traditional Chinese: 翦伯贊; pinyin: Jiǎn Bózàn), Uigher of China，his hometown is Taoyuan County in Hunan State of China(湖南桃源县）. He was a famous scholar and prominent Marxist historian, and from 1952 till he died, he was Vice President of Beijing University.
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Biography
Family and Ancestor
JIan Bozan‘s ancestor is from Northwestern part of China, A Uigher General(哈勒巴士）, while he helped Emperor of Ming Dynasty conquering Miao Rebellion, Emperor Rewarded his family a last name "Jian(翦）“, and married him to his God daughter(Duyi Princess). Jian Family then stayed at Hunan Taoyuan County. They gradually melt into Han culture over years. "Jian(翦）“is very usual last name in China.
Early years and education
In 1916, he entered school in Beijing, where he studied and conducted research concerning China's economic history.[1][2] His graduation thesis was a 50,000 character study of the history of China's currency system.[3] Believing in the ideal of industry as China's savior, he travelled to the University of California in 1924 to research economics. During this time, he closely read Anti-Dühring, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, The Communist Manifesto, and other famous Marxist works. He returned to China in 1926.[1] Jian was a patriot, and participated in the protests leading up to the March 18 Massacre of that year.[4] He published his first Marxist interpretation of Chinese history during the 1930s, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1937.[1][5] In 1934, while serving as secretary to Tan Zhen, deputy head of the Judicial Yuan, Jian went on a tour of numerous countries around the world.[4] As a close ally of the Party, Jian became professor of history at Peking University after the party's rise to power in 1949, and later served as dean of the faculty of history and vice-president of the university.[1][2]
During the Cultural Revolution
Jian was heavily criticized during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution. During the early 1960s, Jian began to advocate historical accounts that utilized a combination of the methodology of class analysis with that of historicism. For this, Mao Zedong criticized Jian at the end of 1965. Qi Benyu, a prominent Party figure of the time period, also criticized Jian on four counts: opposing the theory of class struggle, denigrating peasant revolutions, praising emperors and kings, and applauding conciliatory policies.[6] Jian also suffered from severe torture and lynch during that time, and these drove Jian to commit suicide. He, along with his wife, took an overdose of sleeping pills and died on December 18, 1968.[1][2]
Abridged list of publications
- Treatise on Chinese History (中国史论集)
- Discussions of Historical Questions (历史问题论丛)
- Anthology of Historical Works by Jian Bozan (翦伯赞历史论文选集)
- Historical Data and the Study of History (史料与史学)
- Recent Capitalist Economy of the World (最近之世界资本主义经济)
- A Course in the Philosophy of History (历史哲学教程)
- An Outline of Chinese History (中国史纲)
- History of the Qin and Han Dynasties (秦汉史)
- Timeline of Chinese and Foreign History (中外历史年表)
- General Reference on Chinese History (中国通史参考资料)
See also
References
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