Lu Xun Literary Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 1 (1995) Winner
Yan Xiu
えん しゅう
Yan Xiu
Aliases:
Yan Fansun
Pen Names:
Yan Fansun（Alternative name used in some contexts）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1860-04-12 （Tianjin, Qing Dynasty）
- Died
- 1929-03-15 （Tianjin, Republic of China） age 68
- Nationality
- Chinese
- Languages
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Residence History
- Tianjin → Guizhou (served as education commissioner)
Career
- Occupations
- Educator, Education administrator
- Active Years
- 1880-1929
- Affiliations
- Associated with founding of Nankai schools and Nankai University
- Influenced
- Zhang Boling
Awards & Nominations
Legacy
A Tianjin-born educator who, with Zhang Boling, helped establish the Nankai schools and Nankai University. He contributed to private education and educational reform from the late Qing to the Republican era and played an important role in modern Chinese educational history.
Museums
- Statue and memorial display of Yan Xiu at Nankai school (Tianjin) Tianjin, on Nankai school campus
Archives
- Nankai University archives
Trivia
- Born into a salt merchant family and used family wealth to support educational initiatives.
- In 1905 he established the Zhili Education Official Gazette, considered one of the earliest education official gazettes in China.
- He was involved in the development of the Nankai schools which later led to the founding of Nankai University in 1919.