Jian Bozan

Jian, Bozan (simplified Chinese: 翦伯赞; traditional Chinese: 翦伯贊; pinyin: Jiǎn Bózàn)

Jian, Bozan, Uigher of China，his hometown is Taoyuan County in Hunan State of China(湖南桃源县）. He was a famous scholar and prominent Marxist historian, and from 1952 till he died, he was Vice President of Beijing University.

Biography

Family and Ancestor

JIan Bozan‘s ancestor is from Northwestern part of China, A Uigher General(哈勒巴士）, while he helped Emperor of Ming Dynasty conquering Miao Rebellion, Emperor Rewarded his family a last name "Jian(翦）“, and married him to his God daughter(Duyi Princess). Jian Family then stayed at Hunan Taoyuan County. They gradually melt into Han culture over years. "Jian(翦）“is very usual last name in China.

Early years and education

In 1916, he entered school in Beijing, where he studied and conducted research concerning China's economic history.[1][2] His graduation thesis was a 50,000 character study of the history of China's currency system.[3] Believing in the ideal of industry as China's savior, he travelled to the University of California in 1924 to research economics. During this time, he closely read Anti-Dühring, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, The Communist Manifesto, and other famous Marxist works. He returned to China in 1926.[1] Jian was a patriot, and participated in the protests leading up to the March 18 Massacre of that year.[4] He published his first Marxist interpretation of Chinese history during the 1930s, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1937.[1][5] In 1934, while serving as secretary to Tan Zhen, deputy head of the Judicial Yuan, Jian went on a tour of numerous countries around the world.[4] As a close ally of the Party, Jian became professor of history at Peking University after the party's rise to power in 1949, and later served as dean of the faculty of history and vice-president of the university.[1][2]

During the Cultural Revolution

Jian was heavily criticized during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution. During the early 1960s, Jian began to advocate historical accounts that utilized a combination of the methodology of class analysis with that of historicism. For this, Mao Zedong criticized Jian at the end of 1965. Qi Benyu, a prominent Party figure of the time period, also criticized Jian on four counts: opposing the theory of class struggle, denigrating peasant revolutions, praising emperors and kings, and applauding conciliatory policies.[6] Jian also suffered from severe torture and lynch during that time, and these drove Jian to commit suicide. He, along with his wife, took an overdose of sleeping pills and died on December 18, 1968.[1][2]

Abridged list of publications

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne (1996). "On Shi and Lun: Toward a Typology of Historiography in the PRC". History and Theory (Blackwell Publishing) 35 (4): 74–95. doi:10.2307/2505445. JSTOR 2505445.
  2. 1 2 3 Wang, Youqin (1997). "The Second Wave of Violent Persecution of Teachers: the Revolution of 1968". 35th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies.
  3. ↑ Wang, Changpei and Zhou, Wenjiu (2009). "The Characteristics of Chinese Marxist Historiography——Focusing on the Works of Guo Moruo, Fan Wenlan, Jian Bozan, Lü Zhenyü, and Hou Wailu". Journal of Historiography (in Chinese) 2: 68.
  4. 1 2 Wang and Zhou, 68
  5. ↑ "Chinese Ancient Classics Net - Jian Bozan" (in Chinese). Retrieved 2007-09-10.
  6. ↑ Munro, Robin (1980). "Settling Accounts with the Cultural Revolution at Beijing University 1977-78". The China Quarterly 82 (82): 308–333. doi:10.1017/S030574100001239X. JSTOR 653067.
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