Guo Yuheng (1920-2010)
Guo Yuheng, professor. A native of Yutian, Zhili (now Hebei). Mr. Guo is knowledgeable and has a self-contained academic system. He is a gentle and honest man and specializes in calligraphy. Because he was mistakenly classified as a "rightist", he was not able to be appointed as a senior professor at Beijing Normal University. At 22:57 on August 4, 2010, Professor Guo Yuheng passed away due to illness.
Mr. Guo calls himself "a lifelong scholar and a devotee of Lu Xun." For decades, he has devoted himself to the study of Chinese literary history, among which Lu Xun is a very important ideological weapon. Professor Guo Yuheng's literary history has solid and rich historical materials and extraordinary historical knowledge. Together with Liu Pansui, he is the editor-in-chief of "Selected Prose of Chinese Past Dynasties" and is the author of "Anthology of Ancient Literature", "History of Chinese Prose", "Collection of Prose of Past Dynasties", etc. "History of Chinese Prose" (volume 1) won the first prize of the Second Beijing Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievements Award (1991); he completed the three volumes of the masterpiece "History of Chinese Prose" with one person's efforts in 19 years , 1.6 million words, is called "filling the gap in the study of Chinese literary history" by academic circles. This work won the first prize for outstanding ancient books in East China (2001) and the first prize for Beijing Education and Teaching Achievements (Higher Education). (2001). "History of Ancient Chinese Literature" won the Special Prize for Excellent Books in East China (2000). Guo Yuheng was the author of the essay "I Was in This Fighting Year" for the Beijing examination of the resumed college entrance examination in 1977.