Bai Shouyi

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Bai Shouyi (Traditional 白壽彝; Simplified 白寿彝; Pinyin: Bái Shòuyì) (February 1909 - March 21, 2000) was a prominent Chinese historian, thinker, social activist and ethnologist who revolutionized recent Chinese historiography and pioneered in relying heavily on scientific excavations and reports. However his interpretations, alike other peer historians, based on Marxist views.

Born a son of a Hui merchant in Kaifeng, he became literate in Arabic from his mother and aunt.

He died in Beijing at the age of 91.

See also: Chinese history

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