Ma Xiangbo
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Ma Xiangbo (馬相伯, 1840-1939) was a Chinese scholar and educator during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic of China. Ma, who was also known under his style Ma Liang (馬良), was born in Dantu, Jiangsu province to a prominent Catholic family. At the age of 11, he enrolled in a Jesuit school in Shanghai, Collège de Saint-Ignace, where remained first as student and later as teacher until 1870. In 1870, he became an ordained member of the Jesuit order. In 1886/87, he visited France and eventually devoted his life to higher education.
Ma founded the following institutions of higher learning:
- Aurora Academy (Zhendan Xueyuan 震旦學院)(1903)
- Fudan Public School (Fudan Gongxue 復旦公學) (1905), litterally meaning: a revived Aurora Public School
- Beijing Gongjiao Daxue 北京公教大學, later renamed Fu Jen Catholic University （Furen daxue 輔仁大學）, in co-operation with Ying Lianzhi 英斂之.
His idea of establishing a highest body of learning was eventually realized in 1928 by his close friend, the educator Cai Yuanpei, who established the Academia Sinica (Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan 中央研究院).
His brother, Ma Jianzhong, was a prominent official in the Qing government.
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[edit] See also
- Article on Collège de Saint-Ignace in Chinese Wikipedia.
[edit] Reference
- Boorman, Howard L., Richard C. Howard, and Joseph K. H. Cheng, eds. Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967.
- Hayhoe, Ruth, and Lu Yongling, eds. Ma Xiangbo and the Mind of Modern China 1840-1939. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
