Background
Cai Yuanpei (AD 1868-1940), with the courtesy names Heqing and Jiemin and the literary name Jienong, was born in Shanyin of Shaoxing (today's Yuecheng).
educator politian Revolutionary
Cai Yuanpei (AD 1868-1940), with the courtesy names Heqing and Jiemin and the literary name Jienong, was born in Shanyin of Shaoxing (today's Yuecheng).
In AD 1904, Cai Yuanpei established an anti-Qing revolutionary party in Shanghai and became its first president. He highly valued academic freedom, allowing different schools of thought to develop on campus. He practised intellectual freedom and had an all-embracing attitude towards education. He was in favour of wiping out feudalism, old customs, and classical Chinese.