About Mr. Qian Mu

Mr. Qian Mu, courtesy name Bin Si, was born on the 9th day of the sixth month (the 30th day of the 7th month of the solar calendar) in the 21st year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (the 17th year of the Republic of China). He was talented and intelligent since childhood, studied hard, and became a rural primary school teacher at the age of 18. At the age of 36, he published the article "Chronology of Liu Xiangxin's Father and Son", in order to refute Kang Youwei's misrepresentation of "a new study of apocryphal scriptures", which shocked the academic circles in Beijing. In the same year, he served as a lecturer at Yenching University, teaching Chinese. In the 20th year of the Republic of China, he was transferred to be a teacher of the History Department of Peking University, where he taught historiography for Mr. In the 38th year of the Republic of China, Mr. went to Hong Kong to establish New Asia College. In the 44th year, he was invited by the Department of Oriental Studies of Yale University to give lectures at the school for half a year, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Yale University. In the autumn of 1956, Mr. and Mrs. came to Taiwan to settle in the Sushulou in Waishuangxi, Taipei. In 57 years, he was elected as an academician of the Academia Sinica. In seventy-five years, he was appointed as the President's Counselor. In the 1979th year of the Republic of China, Mr. Qian moved out of the Sushu Building and died in his own residence on Hangzhou South Road, Taipei City in August of that year, at the age of ninety-six. In 1981, Mrs. Feng was buried by the shore of Taihu Lake.