Chen Yuan (1880165438+10/2-19765438+June 2 1), a native of Xinhui County, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, is an outstanding historian and historian in China.
Chen Yuan founded Guangzhou Guanghua Medical College, Beijing Orphan Work-study Park and Beijing Civilian Middle School. He used to be a professor and tutor in National Peking University, Beiping Normal University and Fu Jen Catholic University. In the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926), he served as the president of Fu Jen Catholic University from 1952. Before 1949, he also served as the director of Shi Jing Library and Palace Museum Library. 1949, he served as the director of the Second Institute of History of China Academy of Sciences. From 1952 to 197 1, he was the president of Beijing Normal University.
Chen Yuan has made in-depth research in Yuan history, historical philology, religious history and other fields, leaving a rich legacy of more than a dozen monographs and more than a hundred papers. Chen Yuan's main works include Textual Research on the Sinicization of People in Western Regions in Yuan Dynasty, Collation Notes, Examples of Historical Taboos, Zi Zhi Tong Jian and so on. And Chen Yuan's academic anthology has been published internationally. Chen Yuan and Chen Yinque are called "two histories", while Chen Yu and Qian Mu are called "four histories". Many of his works have become classics in the historical field. Some of them have been translated into English and Japanese and published in the United States, Germany and Japan. President Mao Zedong called him a "national treasure".