Grandpa Lian Gong was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. He was edited by Imperial College and later elected as a member of Parliament. My father studied in a private school in his hometown in his early years and went to Beijing to study at the age of 14.
When my father was a teenager, he was very diligent. When he lived in a primary school, among the seven or eight people in his dormitory, there were several dude children who ate, drank and had nothing to do all day, but he didn't care, studied hard and was admitted to the middle school class of Shuntian Higher School in Beiping with the best results.
19 1 1 year, the Revolution of 1911 broke out and the revolutionary storm swept through China. My father, like other hot-blooded young people, is high-spirited and determined to join the tide of the national revolution and be a trendsetter in the new era. At that time, Sun Bingwen was the editor-in-chief of the Tianjin Republic of China newspaper, which publicized the revolution openly. My father wrote some short articles under the pseudonym of "Chi Zi" and published them in the newspaper with the general title of "Broken Jade".
After the Revolution of 1911, schools were closed and classmates and friends were scattered. After staying in his hometown for a period of time, in the summer of 19 12, he came to Beijing again and was admitted to the middle school attached to Normal University. The following year, I was admitted to Peking University Preparatory College and started a new life.
At that time, Peking University set up arts, law, science, engineering and preparatory courses. "Preparatory course" is equivalent to the attached middle school, with a schooling period of three years (later changed to two years). After graduation, you can enter the undergraduate course without examination. My father studied in the preparatory course for one year, and didn't find it very difficult. He enrolled in the undergraduate course, entered the philosophy department of liberal arts, and soon transferred to the mathematics department.
19 17, my father graduated from Peking University and stayed as a teaching assistant, teaching logic and mathematics. Three years later, he was promoted to lecturer, during which he helped Comrade Li Dazhao to work in the library of Peking University.
At the beginning of this year, Mr Cai Yuanpei was appointed as the president of Peking University. He carried out the policy of "inclusiveness" in running schools and vigorously advocated freedom of thought. Under his leadership, Peking University has carried out reforms and taken on a new look. My sensitive and active father is deeply interested in philosophy, politics, society, life and other important issues. In a series of articles, he introduced Russell, romain rolland and other western progressive thinkers to China people for the first time, translated many articles of Russell in New Youth and other magazines, and wrote comments on his philosophical thoughts, which had a wide influence at that time.
19 19 On May 4th, the epoch-making May 4th Movement broke out, which promoted the vigorous development of the New Culture Movement and the activities and development of many progressive groups. About this time, my father participated in the activities of China Youth Association and Fashion Society, served as the editorial board of New Youth, and also participated in the publication of Weekly Review. During this period, I not only had close contacts with Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu and others, but also got to know Liu Qingyang, Zhou Enlai, Deng and other progressive youths of the Tianjin Enlightenment.
With the wide spread of Marxism–Leninism in China, with the help of * * * Production International, the brewing and establishment of the China * * * Production Party is also being actively carried out. /kloc-at the beginning of 0/920, my father participated in the early party building and ran in series between "Nanli" and became the early party member of China's * * * production party.
After the First World War, French and French organized a Sino-French education conference for cultural exchange, advocating French students to work and study in China. After the May 4th Movement, the climax of work-study program gradually formed.
Li Shizeng, Wu Zhihui and others organized a Sino-French University in Lyon in Paris, France. Father was hired to teach logic and arrived in Paris, France at the end of 1920. During this trip, he also shouldered an important mission, that is, entrusted by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, to establish a developing party organization overseas. 192 1, he introduced Liu Qingyang and Zhou Enlai who had arrived in France in advance to join the producers' party in China. Soon, together with Zhou Enlai, Liu Qingyang, party member Zhao Shiyan and Chen Gongpei from China, a * * * production party group was established in Paris, and there were frequent correspondence with Chen Duxiu in China.
192 1 In the spring of, Zhou Enlai joined the China * * * Production Party. This is him (second from left) and party introducer Zhang Shenfu (first from right) and Liu Qingyang (second from right) in Wansai Lake in Berlin. On the left is Zhao.
192 1 September, a struggle broke out for students studying in France to run the University of Lyon. Father ran for this and made representations to Wu Zhihui, but to no avail. In the end, under the joint persecution of Chinese and French authorities, the struggle failed. My father was so angry that he resigned as a teacher and left China-France University in Lyon.
1922, my father transferred to Germany with Liu Qingyang and Zhou Enlai, and later introduced Zhu De, who had been to Germany, to join the China Producers Party with Zhou Enlai. At the end of the same year, the China * * * European branch was established, mainly under the responsibility of my father, Zhou Enlai and Zhao Shiyan.
At the end of 1923, my father left Germany and returned to the motherland via Moscow after asking for instructions from the CPC Central Committee.
After arriving in Beijing, he planned to return to teach at Peking University, but Hu Shi and others unexpectedly refused. Introduced by Li Dazhao, my father arrived in Guangzhou.
At that time, with the help of China's * * * production party, Sun Yat-sen reorganized the Kuomintang, determined the three major policies of uniting with Russia, uniting with * * * and assisting the peasants and workers, and created a new situation of cooperation between the two countries. In order to train revolutionary military talents, Guangzhou is organizing the Whampoa Military Academy. After his father arrived in Guangdong, he immediately took part in this work and was appointed as the deputy director of the Political Department of the Military Academy. At the same time, he was employed by Guangdong University (predecessor of Sun Yat-sen University) as a professor and librarian.
Shortly after his father served in Huangpu Military Academy, he felt that Chiang Kai-shek, then the principal, was domineering and willful, and it was difficult to do anything for a long time, so he took the opportunity to leave the military academy. However, after my father returned to Beijing for vacation in the summer, Zou Lu, president of Guangdong University, suddenly turned against me and stopped issuing letters of appointment for an excuse. My father lost his job in Guangdong and had to transfer to Shanghai.
1925 65438+ 10, the fourth national congress of China * * * production party was held in Shanghai, and my father attended the meeting. At the meeting, he had an argument with others because of discussing the party's program, and then he resigned angrily. He believes that "disagreement within the party will hinder many things" and "it is still a problem outside the party."
Since then, my father's main job has been teaching and translating works, and he has taught in Jinan University, Mainland University, Gongguan University, China University, Peking University and Tsinghua University.
193 1 After the September 18th Incident, the national crisis intensified. My father, who is full of patriotic feelings, often uses the forum to denounce the authorities' policy of non-resistance, publicize patriotic ideas and join the anti-Japanese national salvation movement. 1936 1, Beiping Cultural Salvation Association was established. His father was elected as a member of the presidium of the congress and an executive member of the National Salvation Association, and later served as the head of the National Salvation Association from all walks of life in North China. He is an active and influential representative of patriotic progressive professors.
Father's patriotic action aroused the anxiety of the Kuomintang authorities. 1936 was arrested and imprisoned in February, until May, when he was released on bail pending trial with the support and assistance of Mr. Feng Yuxiang and all walks of life. But soon after he returned to Tsinghua University, he was expelled from school.
After leaving Tsinghua University, my father still devoted himself to the anti-Japanese national salvation movement, and later joined the democratic political group as a representative of the National Salvation Association and served as the Standing Committee of the Central Committee. In order to promote the cooperation between the two countries, he and other NLD leaders acted as a third party to mediate the peace talks between the two countries.
* * * After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), under the care of Premier Zhou Enlai, my father was arranged to be a researcher in the Beijing Library. 1957 was wrongly classified as Rightist and was beaten during the Cultural Revolution. It was not until the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee that it was completely rehabilitated. Later, he served as a member of the Fifth and Sixth CPPCC. 1986 died at the age of 93.