Chen Mengjia
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| Traditional Chinese | 陳夢家 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 陈梦家 | ||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Chén Mèngjiā |
| Wade–Giles | Ch'en Meng-chia |
Chen Mengjia (or Ch'en Meng-chia; 20 April 1911, Nanjing – 3 September 1966, Beijing) was a Chinese scholar, poet and archaeologist. He was considered the foremost authority on oracle bones and was Professor of Chinese at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was married to the poet and translator Zhao Luorui (aka Lucy Chao, 1912–1998). Chen committed suicide in 1966, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution after being labeled a "capitalist intellectual" and Rightist, having criticised Chinese leaders in 1957.
Chen was born and raised in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. His father was a Presbyterian minister.
In his youth Chen had been a poet, under the pen name Wanderer, his first poem was published when he was 18. He was a member of the Crescent Moon Society in Shanghai, a group of romantic poets during the early 20th century. In 1932 he joined the resistance against Japanese aggression in Shanghai during the January 28 Incident. At that time he also studied law in Nanjing, but in 1932 began to research classical Chinese literature and religion, before turning to the study of Chinese writing and archaeology at Yenching University in Beijing, where he specialised in the study of oracle bones and ancient Chinese bronzes. Chen and his wife moved to Kunming in the mid 1930s, where had a position at the National Southwest Associated University.
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