Jiang Kanghu
Jiang Kanghu (江 亢 虎, Jiāng Kànghú , Chiang K'ang-Hu , Kiang Kang-Hu , born July 18, 1883 in Shangrao , † December 7, 1954 in Shanghai ) was a Chinese literary scholar and politician.
Jiang studied classical Chinese literature in China and received modern training in Japan, Belgium and the USA. After 1900 he worked as the director of the Bei Yang Translation Bureau and became a professor at the Imperial University of Beijing . After the founding of the Republic of China , he founded the anarchist Socialist Party of China and became its chairman.
After the party was dissolved on the orders of Yuan Shikai , Jiang went into exile in the United States. He became a lecturer at the University of California , which awarded him an honorary doctorate in philosophy. After traveling through the Soviet Union in 1921, he returned to China and founded the Southern University in Shanghai, whose rector he became. In 1924 he was again chairman of the re-approved Socialist Party of China.
Jiang published a. a. a series of textbooks on Chinese literature (1905), a series of lectures on world history (1910) and classical Chinese literature (1920), and The Jadeberg , an anthology of 300 poems from the Tang Dynasty .
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| SURNAME | Jiang, Kanghu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kiang, Kang-Hu; Chiang, K'ang-Hu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese politician and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shangrao |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th December 1954 |
| Place of death | Shanghai |