#modernchina — Public Fediverse posts

#BOTD: Kuan Kwang Tsoong 鍾觀光 (1868–1940), Chinese #botanist. #Botany #Science #ModernChina

#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

#Periodisation of #ChineseHistory in Francis Lister Hawks Pott (1864-1947), A Sketch of Chinese History, first published in 1904. Pott was an #American #Episcopal #missionary #periodization #China #Missiology #ChristianMissionInChina #missionaries #ModernChina

#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.

#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 #清 government.

#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 #清 government.

#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 #清 government.

#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 #清 government.

#OTD 1839: Lin Zexu #林則徐 (1785–1850), Imperial Commissioner of the Qing #清 (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

#BOTD: Ba Jin 巴金 (1904–2005),né Li Yaotang 李堯棠, Chinese #anarchist writer who also wrote in #Esperanto and is most renowned for his semi-autobiographical novel 'The Family' #家. #ChineseLiterature #ModernChina

#BOTD: 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.