Mr. Qian Zhongshu, also known as Mocun and Huaiju, was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu in 1910. He entered Donglin Primary School at the age of ten, received secondary education at Suzhou Taowu Middle School and Wuxi Furen Middle School, and was admitted to Tsinghua University at the age of nineteen.
In 1932, he met Mr. Yang Jiang at Tsinghua University. He graduated the following year and went to teach at Guanghua University in Shanghai.
In 1935, my husband married Mr. Yang Jiang, and then they went to England to study together. Two years later, Mr. Li obtained an associate doctorate (B.litt) for his article "China in British Literature in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries". Later, he followed Mr. Yang Jiang to the University of Paris in France to engage in research. In 1938, he was hired as a professor by Tsinghua University as an exception. The following year, he was transferred to the National Lantian Normal University as the head of the English Department and began writing "Talk about Art". In 1941, the Pearl Harbor incident broke out. Mr. was trapped in Shanghai and taught at Aurora Girls' Liberal Arts School. During this period, he completed the writing of "Talk about Art" and "Written on the Edge of Life".
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as professor of the Department of Foreign Languages ??of Shanghai Jinan University and editor of the English-language journal Shulin Quarterly of the Nanjing Central Library. In the following three years, his collection of works "Man, Beast and Ghost", novel "Fortress Besieged", and poetry theory "Talk about Art" were published one after another, which caused great repercussions in the academic world.
In 1949, Mr. returned to Tsinghua to teach; in 1953, he was transferred to the Institute of Literature, where he completed "Selected Annotations of Song Poems" and participated in the "Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty" and "History of Chinese Literature" (Part of the Tang and Song Dynasties). Writing work.
In 1966, the Cultural Revolution broke out, which affected Mr. Yang. In November 1969, he and Mr. Yang were sent to the "May 7th Cadre School" in Henan. He returned to Beijing in March 1972, and the "Guan Zui Bian" was finalized in August of that year.
In 1979, "Guan Zui Bian" and "Four Old Articles" were published. Since 1982, he has served as the vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a special consultant of the Academy; in 1984, "Talk about Art" (revised edition) was published; in the following year, "Seven Collections" was published.
On December 19, 1998, he passed away in Beijing at the age of 88.