10 Facts About Deng Guangming

Deng Guangming was a Chinese historian who specialized in the 10th to 13th century Song, Jin and Liao dynasties.

Deng Guangming sat the entrance exam for Peking, now Beijing University in 1931 but was not enrolled.

One year after graduation Deng Guangming had already decided that henceforth his life would be follow the path of academia.

Thereafter in 1937 Deng Guangming published his Chronicle of Xin Qiji's Life together with the Annotated Works of Xin Qiji which were unanimously praised by Hu Shih, Chen Yinke and Xia Chengtao amongst others and made the author's name.

Deng Guangming continued his research at the Beiping Library and with the assistance of Fu Sinian and Zhao Wanli completed a work containing Chronicle of Xin Qiji's Life, Annotated Works of Xin Qiji and Treasury of Xin Qiji's Writing and Poetry.

In 1940, Deng Guangming followed Fu Sinian to Li Village, Nanxi County, Sichuan where from 1940 until Spring 1942 he received support from the board of directors of the Sino-British Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Fund and began his research into the History of Song.

In July 1943 on the recommendation of Fu Sinian, Deng Guangming became Assistant Professor of History at Fudan University, relocating to its temporary location in Beibei, Chongqing.

Deng Guangming in turn was invited by his former tutors but he declined and instead remained on the Chinese mainland.

In 1983 Deng Guangming established the National Ancient History Research Center at Beijing University of which he became Director and where he taught a large number of talented students.

From his 1937 publication of Chronicle of Xin Qiji's Life and Annotated Works of Xin Qiji onwards Deng Guangming conducted extensive and thorough research into the history of the political system of the Song Dynasty, its economic history as well as its degrees and legal regulations, academic and cultural history along with other topics.