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Chen Yinque

Chen Yinke
陳寅恪
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Born (1890-07-03)3 July 1890
Changsha, Hunan, Qing Empire
Died 7 October 1969(1969-10-07) (aged 79)
Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
Alma mater Fudan University
Humboldt University of Berlin
University of Zurich
Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
Harvard University
Occupation Historian, classical literature researcher, linguist, fellow of Academia Sinica
Parent(s) Chen Sanli
Relatives Chen Baozhen (grandfather)
Chen Yinke
Traditional Chinese 陳寅恪
Simplified Chinese 陈寅恪

Chen Yinke (Chinese: 陳寅恪; 3 July 1890 – 7 October 1969) was a Chinese historian, scholar, and fellow of Academia Sinica, considered one of the most original and creative historians in 20th century China. His representative works are Draft essays on the origins of Sui and Tang institutions 隋唐制度淵源略論稿, Draft outline of Tang political history 唐代政治史述論稿, and An Alternative Biography of Liu Rushi 柳如是別傳.

Chen Yinke was born in Changsha, Hunan in 1890, and his ancestral home was Yining, Jiangxi (now Xiushui County) (Hakka). Yinke's father Chen Sanli was a famous poet, one of the "Four Gentlemen" of the Hundred Days' Reform. His grandfather was Chen Baozhen, the governor of Hunan between 1895 and 1898.

As a boy, Chen Yinke attended a private school in Nanjing, and was once a student of Wang Bohang (), a sinologist. His family had a distinguished tradition in classical learning, so he was exposed from an early age to the Chinese classics, to history, and to philosophy. In 1902 he went to Japan with his elder brother Chen Hengke to study at the Kobun Gakuin () (Kobun Institute) in Tokyo, where other Chinese students such as Lu Xun were also enrolled. In 1905 he was forced to return to China due to beriberi, and studied at Fudan Public School, Shanghai.


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