Author · China
Xu Dishan
Died in 1941
Xu Zankun, who signed Luo Huasheng and then Xu Dishan, was born on 14 February 1893 in Tainan, in Taiwan; after the Sino-Japanese War, his family moved to Fujian. A graduate in literature and then in theology from Yenching University, he went on to study in the United States and in England, and was one of the founders of the Literary Association. A specialist in Buddhism, Taoism and the history of religions, he taught at Yenching and then at the University of Hong Kong, where he reorganised Chinese studies. He died in Hong Kong on 4 August 1941, of a heart condition.