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  1. #BOTD: Qian Xuantong 錢玄同 (1887–1939), Chinese writer and linguist, one of the leaders of the May Fourth and New Culture Movement #五四運動 #新文化運動; a promoter of #Esperanto, he wanted to abolish Written Chinese. #MayThe4thBeWithYou #白話文 #文言文 #新青年 #疑古派 #學衡 #linguist #ModernChina #Linguistics

  2. #BOTD: Qian Xuantong 錢玄同 (1887–1939), Chinese writer and linguist, one of the leaders of the May Fourth and New Culture Movement #五四運動 #新文化運動; a promoter of #Esperanto, he wanted to abolish Written Chinese. #MayThe4thBeWithYou #白話文 #文言文 #新青年 #疑古派 #學衡 #linguist #ModernChina #Linguistics

  3. #BOTD: Qian Xuantong 錢玄同 (1887–1939), Chinese writer and linguist, one of the leaders of the May Fourth and New Culture Movement #五四運動 #新文化運動; a promoter of #Esperanto, he wanted to abolish Written Chinese. #MayThe4thBeWithYou #白話文 #文言文 #新青年 #疑古派 #學衡 #linguist #ModernChina #Linguistics

  4. #BOTD: Qian Xuantong 錢玄同 (1887–1939), Chinese writer and linguist, one of the leaders of the May Fourth and New Culture Movement #五四運動 #新文化運動; a promoter of #Esperanto, he wanted to abolish Written Chinese. #MayThe4thBeWithYou #白話文 #文言文 #新青年 #疑古派 #學衡 #linguist #ModernChina #Linguistics

  5. #BOTD: Qian Xuantong 錢玄同 (1887–1939), Chinese writer and linguist, one of the leaders of the May Fourth and New Culture Movement #五四運動 #新文化運動; a promoter of #Esperanto, he wanted to abolish Written Chinese. #MayThe4thBeWithYou #白話文 #文言文 #新青年 #疑古派 #學衡 #linguist #ModernChina #Linguistics

  6. #BOTD in #ModernChina: Rong Geng 容庚 (1894–1983), palaeographer and expert on Zhou 周 (1045–256 BCE) bronze inscriptions 金文. Student of Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 (1866–1940).

  7. #DOTD: Chen Mengjia 陳夢家 (1911–suicide 1966), #Chinese scholar of palaeography and archaeology, an expert on oracle bones #甲骨文 and bronze inscriptions #金文 from the Yin-Shang 殷商 period (16th–11th cent. BCE). #CulturalRevolution #文化大革命 #ModernChina

  8. #DOTD: Yang Kuan 楊寬 (1914–2005), #classicist and #historian of pre-imperial 先秦 #ChineseHistory. A member of the Doubting Antiquity/Debates on Ancient History Group #古史辨派, he is one of the greatest scholars of the Warring States 戰國 period (475–221) in #ModernChina

  9. #DOTD: Wang Liqi 王利器 (1912–1998), commentator, collator, and textual critic of classical #Chinese texts such as The Literary Mind and the Carving of #Dragons #文心雕龍, The Grand Scribe's Record 史記, & Water Margin 水滸傳

    #校勘學 #文史哲 #熊德基 #ClassicsTwitter #ModernChina

  10. #BOTD: Yang Jiang 楊絳 (1911–2016), playwright and translator who produced the first complete #Chinese translation of #DonQuixote #唐吉訶德. Completed in the 1960s, it was confiscated by #RedGuards during the #CulturalRevolution #文化大革命 and only published in 1978. #ModernChina

  11. #DOTD in #ModernChina: Hu Xiansu 胡先驌 (1894–1968), #Chinese botanist and co-founder of the journal #CriticalReview #學衡, in whose first issue he severely criticised attempts by Hu Shih #胡適 (no relation) and others to write poetry in the Modern Vernacular #白話文. #新文化運動

  12. #DOTD in #ModernChina: Hu Xiansu 胡先驌 (1894–1968), #Chinese botanist and co-founder of the journal #CriticalReview #學衡, in whose first issue he severely criticised attempts by Hu Shih #胡適 (no relation) and others to write poetry in the Modern Vernacular #白話文. #新文化運動

  13. #DOTD in #ModernChina: Hu Xiansu 胡先驌 (1894–1968), #Chinese botanist and co-founder of the journal #CriticalReview #學衡, in whose first issue he severely criticised attempts by Hu Shih #胡適 (no relation) and others to write poetry in the Modern Vernacular #白話文. #新文化運動

  14. #DOTD in #ModernChina: Hu Xiansu 胡先驌 (1894–1968), #Chinese botanist and co-founder of the journal #CriticalReview #學衡, in whose first issue he severely criticised attempts by Hu Shih #胡適 (no relation) and others to write poetry in the Modern Vernacular #白話文. #新文化運動

  15. #DOTD: Liu Bannong 劉半農 (1891–1934), author, linguist, and translator of Sherlock Holmes in #ModernChina. A pioneer of vernacular 白話 poetry, simplified characters 简体字, and photography, he coined the distinction of masculine 他, feminine 她, and neuter 它 (all 'tā' in MSC).

  16. #BOTD in #ModernChina: Shen Dehong 沈德鴻 (1896–1981), pen name Mao Dun 茅盾, #Chinese novelist and politician, most celebrated for his novel Midnight 子夜.

  17. #DOTD in #ModernChina : Zhang Shizhao #章士釗 (1881–1973), Chinese educator, journalist, and politician. Editor of the journal The Tiger 甲寅, he promoted Confucian values and #ClassicalChinese education in the wake of the #NewCultureMovement #新文化運動. #CulturalConservative #China

  18. #DOTD in #ModernChina : Zhang Shizhao #章士釗 (1881–1973), Chinese educator, journalist, and politician. Editor of the journal The Tiger 甲寅, he promoted Confucian values and #ClassicalChinese education in the wake of the #NewCultureMovement #新文化運動. #CulturalConservative #China

  19. #DOTD in #ModernChina : Zhang Shizhao #章士釗 (1881–1973), Chinese educator, journalist, and politician. Editor of the journal The Tiger 甲寅, he promoted Confucian values and #ClassicalChinese education in the wake of the #NewCultureMovement #新文化運動. #CulturalConservative #China

  20. #DOTD in #ModernChina : Zhang Shizhao #章士釗 (1881–1973), Chinese educator, journalist, and politician. Editor of the journal The Tiger 甲寅, he promoted Confucian values and #ClassicalChinese education in the wake of the #NewCultureMovement #新文化運動. #CulturalConservative #China

  21. #DOTD: Guo Moruo 郭沫若 (1892–1978), #Chinese historian and #classicist of #Hakka #客家 descent. One of the most influential scholars of #ModernChina and first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences #中國科學院, he is often seen as a mouthpiece of Mao #毛澤東 and the #CCP.

  22. #OTD in 1911 #ModernChina: Liang Qichao #梁啟超, Sun Hongyi 孫洪伊 (1872–1936), Lei Fen 雷奮 (1871–1919), and others founded the Friends of #Constitutionalism Association #憲友會 in #Beijing #北京 which advocated a #ConstitutionalMonarchy for the westering #Qing # government.

  23. #OTD in 1911 #ModernChina: Liang Qichao #梁啟超, Sun Hongyi 孫洪伊 (1872–1936), Lei Fen 雷奮 (1871–1919), and others founded the Friends of #Constitutionalism Association #憲友會 in #Beijing #北京 which advocated a #ConstitutionalMonarchy for the westering #Qing # government.

  24. #OTD in 1911 #ModernChina: Liang Qichao #梁啟超, Sun Hongyi 孫洪伊 (1872–1936), Lei Fen 雷奮 (1871–1919), and others founded the Friends of #Constitutionalism Association #憲友會 in #Beijing #北京 which advocated a #ConstitutionalMonarchy for the westering #Qing # government.

  25. #OTD in 1911 #ModernChina: Liang Qichao #梁啟超, Sun Hongyi 孫洪伊 (1872–1936), Lei Fen 雷奮 (1871–1919), and others founded the Friends of #Constitutionalism Association #憲友會 in #Beijing #北京 which advocated a #ConstitutionalMonarchy for the westering #Qing # government.

  26. #OTD 1839: Lin Zexu #林則徐 (1785–1850), Imperial Commissioner of the Qing # (1636–1911) seizes and destroys over 1,000 tons of Opium from #British traders at Humen 虎門 in Canton #廣東, #China, setting the spark to the First #OpiumWar #鴉片戰爭 1839–42. #ModernChina #虎門銷菸

  27. #OTD 1839: Lin Zexu #林則徐 (1785–1850), Imperial Commissioner of the Qing # (1636–1911) seizes and destroys over 1,000 tons of Opium from #British traders at Humen 虎門 in Canton #廣東, #China, setting the spark to the First #OpiumWar #鴉片戰爭 1839–42. #ModernChina #虎門銷菸