#ModernChina
#BOTD: Hu Shi / Hu Shih 胡適 (1891–1962), historian, philosopher, diplomat, and one of the most important intellectuals in #ModernChina. #ChinesePhilosophy #MayFourth #五四 #NewCulture #中國哲學史大綱
December 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Join us online for Ji Zhe’s lecture on the life and legacy of Master Jinghai (1919–2019) and the transformation of modern Chinese Buddhism.
📅 18 Dec 2025, 10:00–12:00 CET

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#Buddhism #ModernChina #JiZhe
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
#BOTD: Feng Youlan/Fung Yu-lan 馮友蘭 (1895–1990). Chinese philosopher, author of A History of #ChinesePhilosophy 中國哲學史 (1934, trans. by Derk Bodde). #ModernChina #諸子百家 #哲學 #Philosophy
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
#BOTD: Wang Guowei #王國維 (1877–1927). One of the most influential #classisicist scholars in #ModernChina, he drowned himself in Lake Kunming, which has been romanticised as a protest against #modernity and the death of traditional #ChineseCulture. #四大導師 #獨立之精神自由之思想
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
#DOTD: Feng Youlan/Fung Yu-lan (1895–1990), Chinese philosopher, author of A History of #ChinesePhilosophy 中國哲學史 (1934, trans. by Derk Bodde). #ModernChina #諸子百家 #哲學 #Philosophy
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM
#BOTD: Ba Jin 巴金 (1904–2005), né Li Yaotang 李堯棠, Chinese anarchist writer who also wrote in Esperanto and is most renowned for his semi-autobiographical novel 'The Family' 家. #ChineseLiterature #ModernChina
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM
#DOTD age 38: Liu Boming #劉伯明 (1887–1923), first Chinese to obtain a doctorate in #philosophy, contributor to #CriticalReview #學衡 journal. Notable publication: Outline of Western #Ancient and #Medieval Philosophy 西洋 #古代 #中世 #哲學 史大綱. #ChinesePhilosophy #ModernChina
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
#BOTD: Wen Yiduo 聞一多 (1899–1946), Chinese poet. #ModernChina
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
#BOTD: Guo Moruo 郭沫若 (1892–1978), Chinese historian and classicist of Hakka 客家 descent. One of the most influential scholars of #ModernChina and first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 中國科學院, often seen as a mouthpiece of Mao Zedong 毛澤東 and the CCP / CPC.
November 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
How to Tell a Sensitive History:
Interviews with Chinese International Communist Volunteers in Burma

🗓 12 Nov 2025 | 🕕 18:15–19:45
📍 Room VG 1.102

Speaker: Dr. Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)

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#CeMEAS #GöttingenUniversity #ModernChina #OxfordUniversity
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
#BOTD in 1875 in #ModernChina: Qiu Jin #秋瑾, #Chinese #revolutionary and #feminist. Known as the Women Knight of Mirror Lake 鑒湖女俠, she joined the anti-Qing movement in #Japan. Executed in 1907, she is worshipped as a #martyr in the #Sinophone world. #ChineseHistory #feminism
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
#DOTD: Ba Jin 巴金 (1904–2005), né Li Yaotang 李堯棠, Chinese #anarchist writer who also wrote in #Esperanto and is most renowned for his semi-autobiographical novel 'The Family' #家. #ChineseLiterature #ModernChina
October 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Now available! SEEING THROUGH ABSTRACTION examines how writers of the Republican era (1912–1949) came to recognize and respond to “information.” buff.ly/eCdd90P #ModernChina #Literature
October 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
#BOTD: Gao Jianfu 高劍父 (1879–1951), #Cantonese painter and representative of the #Lingnan School of (modern #Chinese) #Painting #嶺南 畫派. #ModernChina #Art #VisualArts #ModernArt
October 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#BOTD: Jiang Wei 蔣偉, courtesy name 字 Bingzhi 冰之, pen name Ding Ling 丁玲 (1904–1986), 20th-century Chinese author. #ModernChina #ChineseLiterature #WomenWritersWednesday #feminism
October 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#BOTD: Chen Duxiu 陳獨秀 (1879–1942, left-hand side), revolutionary, journalist, publicist, and, together with Li Dazhao 李大釗 (1889–1927, right-hand side), founder of the #Communist Party of #China #中國共產黨 in 1921. #CCP #CPC #ModernChina #ChineseHistory
October 9, 2025 at 6:26 AM
#DOTD: Lin Shu 林紓 (1852–1924). With his team of collaborators, he rendered almost 200 foreign works of literature in Chinese. #ModernChina #ChineseLiterature
October 9, 2025 at 6:23 AM
October 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#DOTD in #ModernChina: Zhang Zhidong 張之洞 (1837–1909), reformer, military leader, and scholar-official. #勸學篇 #ExhortationToLearning #荀子 #Confucianism #科舉
October 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
#OTD 1914: Yuan Shikai 袁世凱 (1859–1916), President of the Republic of China 中華民國, worships Confucius 孔子 (551–479 BCE) at the Confucius temple 孔廟 in Beijing to celebrate the Master's birthday for the first time in #ModernHistory. #ModernChina

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September 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
#DOTD: Xu Beihong 徐悲鴻 (1895–1953), #Chinese painter & pioneer of modern #ChinesePainting, one of the Four Great (Art) Academy Presidents #四大校長. #ChineseArt #ModernChina #SinoIndia
September 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM