Li Wenhai (, born February 28, 1932) is a Chinese
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...
and was the President of
Renmin University of China
The Renmin University of China (RUC; ) is a national key public research university in Beijing, China. The university is affiliated to the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry and the Beijing Municipal People's Government.
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.
Biography
Li Wenhai was born in
Wuxi
Wuxi (, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China, by car to the northwest of downtown Shanghai, between Changzhou and Suzhou. In 2017 it had a population of 3,542,319, with 6,553,000 living in the entire prefecture-level city ar ...
,
Jiangsu
Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...
. He received his graduate degree from Renmin University in 1955. He was the President of the University from 1994 to 2000.
External links
Li Wenhai's profile at Renmin University of China's website
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1932 births
People's Republic of China historians
Renmin University of China alumni
Presidents of Renmin University of China
Writers from Wuxi
Living people
Historians from Jiangsu
Educators from Wuxi