Background
Qian, Mu was born in 1895 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China.
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historian of Chinese philosophy
Qian, Mu was born in 1895 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China.
Wuxi Normal School.
Professor, Yenching University, Beijing. Professor, University of Beijing. Professor, Qinghua University.
Professor, Beijing Normal University. Professor, Southwest Associated University, Changsha and Kunming. Professor, Wuhan University.
Professor, Sichuan University. Director, Research Institute on Chinese Culture. Professor, Yunnan University, Kunming.
Professor, Jiangnan University. 1951-1965, President, New Asia College, Hong Kong. Member, Academia Sinica.
Member, Taiwan Central Re' search Institute.
Qian was a poor schoolteacher without higher education who rose to scholarly fame through Easterly studies of Chinese intellectual history. The Commercial Press, Shanghai. China’s leading academic publisher, provided crucial early support. The culmination of his career was his Presidency of New Asia College, started by traditional scholars who had fled Communist rule and now amalgamated with other colleges into the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Qian’s writing covered general introductory works drawn from his school or university lectures, advanced critical surveys.and detailed studies of individual figures. His General Discussion of Sinology (1928) and his wartime Outline of Chinese History (1940) became widely used textbooks. His studies of the Confucian Analects, of the ancient logicians Hui Shi and Gongsun Long and of Mozi provided the groundwork for his general assessment of pre-Qin schools of philosophy, widely praised as the culmination of the Q'ng dynasty school of textual criticism. This w°rk was followed by his History of Chinese Scholarship in the Last Three Hundred Years (1937) a major re-evaluation stressing the continuity between Sung and Qing neo-Confucianism. His 1930 study of the former Han dynasty scholar Liu Xin and his father Liu Xiang decisively criticized Kang Youwei’s claim that Liu Xin had forged the old text version of the analects. Qian thus defended the central traditions of Confucian scholarship and removed the Justification Kang had found for treating Kongzi as a reformer. Qian also prepared a major study of ^hu Xi, the great twelfth-century neo-Confucian.