Who is Chen Yinke?
Chen Yinke's resume
Chen Yinke (1890 - October 7, 1969) was a modern Chinese historian, classical literature researcher, linguist, and academician of Academia Sinica.
A native of Yining (now Xiushui), Jiangxi, was born in Changsha, Hunan in 1890. His father, Chen Sanli, was a famous poet, one of the four reform sons, and served as the chief professor of Sanjiang Normal School. When he was young, he studied in a private school in Nanjing and studied under Wang Boxan, a master of Chinese studies. Under the influence of his family environment, he read extensively classics, history, and philosophy. In 1902, his eldest brother Chen Hengke, who graduated from Nanjing Mining Road School, traveled east to Japan and entered Sugamo Hongwen College. In the same year, Chinese students who enrolled in the school also included Lu Xun, Chen Shizeng and others. In 1905, he dropped out of school due to foot illness and returned to China, and later studied at Wusong Fudan Public School in Shanghai. In 1910, he obtained an official scholarship to study abroad, and successively studied at the University of Berlin in Germany, the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and the Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, France. The First World War broke out and he returned to China in 1914. In the winter of 1918, he received government funding from Jiangxi Province and went abroad for further study again. He first studied Sanskrit and Pali with Professor Lanman at Harvard University in the United States. In 1921, he transferred to the University of Berlin in Germany and studied Oriental paleography with Professor Ludsch. At the same time, he learned Central Asian ancient writing from Miao Qin and Mongolian language from Heinis. Through studying abroad, I have the ability to read more than ten languages including Mongolian, Tibetan, Manchu, Japanese, Sanskrit, English, French, German and Pali, Persian, Turkic, Tangut, Latin and Greek, especially Sanskrit and Ba Levin. After returning to China in March 1925, Wu Mi was in charge of the Institute of Chinese Studies at Tsinghua University. At the invitation of Tsinghua University, he became a tutor at the Institute of Chinese Studies along with Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao and Zhao Yuanren. In 1928, Tsinghua School was restructured into Tsinghua University. He was appointed as a professor in the Chinese and History Departments, and taught part-time at Peking University. During this period, he mainly taught courses on Buddhist scripture translation literature, historical materials of the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Mongolian historical materials. After 1930, he also served as a director of Academia Sinica, a researcher and director of the first group (history) of the Institute of History and Linguistics, a director of the Palace Museum, and a member of the Qing Dynasty Archives Editorial Committee. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he taught at Southwest Associated University, mainly teaching the history of the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the study of Yuan and Bai poems. In 1939, Oxford University in the United Kingdom hired him as a professor of Chinese history. In September of the following year, he left Kunming for Hong Kong, preparing to transfer to the UK. Due to the war, the trip was not possible, so he was appointed as a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong and later took over as the chairman of the Department of Chinese Literature. At the end of 1941, Hong Kong fell and he studied behind closed doors. In July 1942, he went to Guilin to teach at Guangxi University. In December 1943, he went to Chengdu to teach at Yenching University. In 1946, he was appointed professor of Tsinghua University again. At the end of 1948, he taught at Lingnan University in Guangzhou. In 1952, the departments were restructured, and Lingnan University was merged into Sun Yat-sen University. Since then, he has been a professor at Sun Yat-sen University, teaching three courses including the history of the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the history of the Tang Dynasty, and the Yuefu of the Tang Dynasty for the History Department and the Chinese Department. In July 1960, he was appointed as deputy director of the Central Research Institute of Literature and History. Died in Guangzhou on October 7, 1969.
Bibliography and related research
"Chen Yinke's Lectures on the History of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties"
"A Brief Essay on the Origin of Institutions in the Sui and Tang Dynasties"
"Manuscript of the Political History of the Tang Dynasty"
"Manuscript of Yuanbai's Poems and Notes"
"On "Rebirth""
"Farewell Biography of Liu Rushi"
"Preliminary Collection of Jinmingguan Collection"
"Hanliutang Collection"
"Chen Yinke's Academic and Cultural Essays"
"Chen Yinke's Essays" "Collected Works"
"Collected Works of Chen Yinke"?
"Chronicles of Mr. Chen Yinke" (Jiang Tianshu), Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1981.
"Chen Yinke's Last 20 Years" (Lu Jiandong), Sanlian Bookstore, 1995.