36 Facts About Cai Yuanpei

Cai Yuanpei was a Chinese philosopher and politician who was an influential figure in the history of Chinese modern education.

Cai Yuanpei made contributions to education reform with his own education ideology.

Cai Yuanpei was the president of Peking University, and founder of the Academia Sinica.

Cai Yuanpei was known for his critical evaluation of Chinese culture and synthesis of Chinese and Western thinking, including anarchism.

Cai Yuanpei's works involve aesthetic education, politics, and education reform.

Cai Yuanpei established Guangfuhui in 1904 and joined Tongmenghui in Paris the next year, and became a member of the Chinese anarchist group led by Wu Zhihui, and Li Shizeng.

Cai Yuanpei studied philosophy, psychology, and art history in the Universitat Leipzig of Germany in 1907 under Karl Lamprecht and Wilhelm Wundt.

Cai Yuanpei became Minister of Education in the new Republic of China in 1912.

Cai Yuanpei returned to China in 1916 and served as the President of Peking University the following year.

In 1919, after the student leaders of the May Fourth demonstrators were jailed, Cai Yuanpei resigned in protest.

Cai Yuanpei was appointed president of the Control Yuan, but soon resigned.

Cai Yuanpei was frustrated in his efforts to remodel the national system of education to resemble the French system, but in 1927, he co-founded the National College of Music, which later became the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and in April 1928, he helped to found and became the first president of the Academia Sinica.

Cai Yuanpei lived there in seclusion until his death in March 1940 at the age of 72.

Cai Yuanpei established the Ministry of Education in 1927, modelled after the French education system.

Cai Yuanpei was an advocator and implementer of Chinese aesthetic education.

Cai Yuanpei had his own unique insights into aesthetics which he associated aesthetics with Chinese traditional virtues.

Cai Yuanpei connected aesthetics with education and politics, which is influenced by his experiences.

Cai Yuanpei emphasized the importance of aesthetics for social stability and development.

Cai Yuanpei successively invited several feminists to teach at Peking University, including Chen Duxiu and Hu Shih.

Cai Yuanpei tried to protect the University Council from direct control by the government.

Cai Yuanpei was committed to establishing academic freedom and a pure research atmosphere at Peking University.

Cai Yuanpei tried to protect the freedom of educators and students, in education reform.

Cai Yuanpei assembled notable conservative and old-fashioned scholars such as Gu Hongming and Liu Shipei to teaching at Peking University.

Cai Yuanpei advocated practising five types of education in the education system.

Cai Yuanpei believed in the subordinate, Confucian, relationship between husband and wife, holding that men rule outside the house, and women inside it.

Cai Yuanpei held that an unmarried woman was not a virtuous one.

Cai Yuanpei was a proponent of women's right to divorce and remarry.

Cai Yuanpei strongly opposed foot binding and concubinage, both of which were widely practiced in China at the time.

Cai Yuanpei advocated education equity as well as physical education for women.

Cai Yuanpei advocated anarchism about anti-oppression to re-establish human civilization.

Cai Yuanpei studied anarcho-communism and was influenced by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, and Peter Kropotkin.

Cai Yuanpei proposed that the formation of a new civil religion can be achieved by cultivating the Chinese to learn aesthetics, democracy, and science.

Consistent with the New Culture Movement, Cai Yuanpei contended that divine authorities and superstitions should be overthrown.

Cai Yuanpei viewed religious aesthetics as containing major potential for achieving transcendence through appreciation of beauty.

Just as Cai Yuanpei recommended the teaching of the non-state international language Esperanto in China, he defended the written use of the spoken language to replace the classical Chinese language of the early 20th century.

Cai Yuanpei wrote the story while China was suffering from the war with Japan, and was influenced by the Russo-Japanese War.