Zhu Xueqin
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Zhu Xueqin (Chinese: 朱学勤; born 1952) is a Shanghai-based Chinese historian and public intellectual.
Born in Shanghai, Zhu was sent to rural Lankao County, Henan, in 1970. In 1972 he was then transferred to factory work.
Taking an MA degree in history in 1985 from Shaanxi Normal University, from 1985 to 1991 he taught in the Air Force Politics Institute. In 1992 he graduated from Fudan University with a doctorate in history. From 1991 he has since been a Professor in the Department of History, Academy of Letters, Shanghai University.
A prominent public intellectual as well as an academic scholar, Zhu Xueqin is a major exponent of contemporary Chinese liberalism. He has participated in many public activities, such as circular letter campaigns, in support of human rights, freedom of speech, and political reform.
[edit] Works
- Daode lixiang guo de fumie [Downfall of the Moral Republic] Shanghai: Sanlian, 2004(《道德理想国的覆灭》,上海三联)
- Zhongguoyu ouzhou wenhua jiaoliu zhi [Annals of Sino-European Cultural Exchange] (《中国与欧洲文化交流志》)
- Shuzhaili de genming [The Revolution in the Library](《书斋里的革命》)
