Qian Zhongshu

Qian Zhongshu was born on 21 November 1910 in Wuxi, the son of a Confucian scholar. A graduate of Tsinghua in 1933, he spent two years at Exeter College, Oxford, then studied in Paris; he returned to China in 1938 (in 1939 according to Britannica). In 1935 he had married the writer Yang Jiang. Persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and made to do janitor's work, he devoted himself to scholarship, including a vast compilation of notes in classical Chinese on poetics and literary history. He died in Beijing on 19 December 1998.

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