Yuan Weishi (; born December 15, 1931) is a Chinese historian and philosopher.

Biography

Yuan was born in Xingning, Guangdong. He was admitted to

Zhongshan University Sun Yat-sen University (, abbreviated SYSU and colloquially known in Chinese as Zhongda), also known as Zhongshan University, is a national key public research university located in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It was founded in 1924 by and nam ...

Department of Economics in 1950, and then went to a master program in

political economy Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...

Fudan University Fudan University () is a national public research university in Shanghai, China. Fudan is a member of the C9 League, Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First Class University identified by the Ministry of Education of China. It is als ...

. He worked as a faculty member at Zhongshan University Department of Philosophy. In the January 2006 issue of ''

Freezing Point The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid phase exist in equilibrium. The melting point of a substance depend ...

'', Yuan published an essay titled ''Modernisation and History Textbooks'', criticizing the official theme of government issued middle schools history textbooks, claiming that they contain numbers of distortions of the historical accounts (see for example in the article about

the Boxer Rebellion The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, the Boxer Insurrection, or the Yihetuan Movement, was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, ...

). Professor Yuan said:"The public, especially the students, have the right to find out the true historical facts."

Works

* A Draft History of Modern Chinese Philosophy: Chinese Philosophy during the Beiyang Warlord Period (中國現代哲學史稿: 北洋軍閥統治時期的中國哲學). Guangzhou: 中山大學出版社. 1987. * Great Changes in the Late Qing: Tides of Thought and Figures (晚清大變局中的思潮與人物. 1992. * Republished edition: The Sunset of the Empire: Great Changes of the Late Qing (帝國落日‧晚清大變局). 2003. * Yesterday's China (昨天的中国). 2012. * Late-coming Civilization (迟到的文明). 2014.

References

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