Chinese Celebrities

A bourgeois reformist thinker Overview Chinese Name: 胡适 English Name: Hu Shih Other Names: Hu Sitao 胡嗣穈，Hu Hongxing 胡洪骍，Hu Xijiang 胡希疆 Born: December 17, 1891 Died: February 24, 1962 Achievements: The leader of New Culture Movement 新文化运动领袖 Create the history of Chinese Philosophy 开创中国哲学史 Research and establish the New Youth 研究创办新青年 Advocate vernacular 提倡白话文 Main Works: The collection of attempts […]

The pioneer of Chinese new literature Overview Chinese Name: 鲁迅 English Name: Lu Xun Other Names: Zhou Shuren 周树人, Zhou Zhangshou 周樟寿, Changgeng长庚 Born: September 25, 1881 Died: October 19, 1936 Achievements: The founder of Chinese modern literature 中国现代文学的奠基人  The pioneer of Chinese translated literature 中国翻译文学的开拓者 The pioneer of Chinese modern ideological emancipation 中国现代思想解放先驱 The great mentor of China’s new

A poetic immortals who make great achievements Overview Chinese Name: 李白 English Name: Li Bai Other Names: Li Shier 李十二, Li Hanlin 李翰林, Li Shiyi 李拾遗 Born: 701 Died: December 762 Achievements: Create the peak of ancient romantic literature 创造了古代浪漫主义文学高峰 The Gexing and seven quatrains have reached a height that is difficult for later generations to reach 歌行体和七绝达到后人难及的高度 Main Works:

A historian who is familiar with the changes of the past and the present Overview Chinese Name: 司马迁 English Name: Sima Qian Other Names: Shi Qian 史迁, Lord Grand Historian太史公 Born: 145 BC or 135 BC Died: Unknown Achievements: Compile Shiji 编著《史记》 Creating the biographical literature 开创纪传体史学 Main Works: Shiji 《史记》 Report to Ren Shaoqing 《报任少卿书》   Sima Qian 司马迁

The sage of Chinese poetry Overview Chinese Name: 杜甫 English Name: Du Fu Other Names: Du Shaoling 杜少陵, Du Gongbu 杜工部, Du Shiyi 杜拾遗, Du Caotang 杜草 Born: February 12, 712 Died: 770 Achievements: A great realistic writer in the Tang Dynasty 唐代伟大的现实主义文学作家 A master of the thought and art of Tang Poetry 唐诗思想艺术的集大成者 Main Works: Wangyue 望岳 Denggao 登高

The founder of Yellow Sect of Tibetan Buddhism Overview Chinese Name: 宗喀巴 English Name: Je Tsongkhapa Other Names: Losang Drakpa 罗桑扎巴, Zongkaba 宗喀巴 Born: October 10, 1357 Died: October 25, 1419 Achievements: The founder of Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism 藏传佛教格鲁派的创立者 Be honored by the Tibetans as the Second Buddha 藏族人尊称为第二佛陀 Main Works: The Great Treatise on the Stages of

The founder of new historiography Overview Chinese Name: 梁启超 English Name: Liang Qichao Other Names: Yin Bing Zi 饮冰子, New people of China 中国之新民, Master of Freedom House 自由斋主人 Born: February 23, 1873 Died: January 19, 1929 Achievements: Participate in “Joint Petition of Imperial Examination Candidates to the Emperor” and call for salvation 参与“公车上书”，呼吁救亡图存 Publicize the idea of reform and

A modern generalist as well as a literary and historical master Overview Chinese Name: 郭沫若 English Name: Guo Moruo Other Names: Guo Kaizhen 郭开贞, Wenbao 文豹, Dingtang 鼎堂 Born: November 16, 1892 Died: June 12, 1978 Main Works: Goddess: Songs and Poems 女神：戏剧诗歌集 Chu Yuan: Five Acts 屈原：五幕剧   Guo Moruo 郭沫若 Brief Biography of Guo Moruo Guo Moruo (November

King Wuling of Zhao, who founded a new military system by riding and shooting Overview Chinese Name: 赵雍 English Name: Zhao Yong Other Names: King Wuling of Zhao 赵武灵王 Born: 340 B.C. Died: 295 B.C. Achievements: Pursue the policy of “riding and shooting in a Hu suit” 推行“胡服骑射” Destroy the Zhongshan State 灭亡中山国 Zhao Yong 赵雍 Brief Biography of Zhao Yong

A Tubo Zanpu who combined with the Tang Dynasty Overview Chinese Name: 松赞干布 English Name: Songtsen Gampo Other Names: Qizong Nongzan 弃宗弄赞, Qizong Nong 弃宗农 Born: 617 Died: 650 Achievements: Unify Tibet and officially establish the Tubo Dynasty 统一西藏，正式建立吐蕃王朝 Reform the political and military systems 改革政治、军事制度 Songtsen Gampo 松赞干布 Brief Biography of Songtsen Gampo Songtsen Gampo is the 33rd Zanpu