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Cai Yuanpei

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Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940) was a Chinese philosopher and politician who shaped modern Chinese education. Born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and appointed to the Hanlin Academy at 26, he studied philosophy, psychology and art history at Leipzig, became Minister of Education of the new Republic of China in 1912, and served as president of Peking University from 1917. There he defended academic freedom and brought in thinkers of both the new culture movement and older scholarship, and he admitted women in 1920. He urged that education be independent of government, promoted aesthetic education, proposed five types of education, and founded Academia Sinica in 1928 as its first president.

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Birth Year
1868 1
Level Worked At
Higher 1
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In Approach

Confucian Pedagogy, Pedagogical Approaches
Source Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education: Cai Yuanpei's Vision of Aesthetic Education and His Legacy in Modern China

Informed By

Confucius, Thinkers
Source Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education: Cai Yuanpei's Vision of Aesthetic Education and His Legacy in Modern China
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China

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was a Chinese philosopher and politician
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1. Cai Yuanpei (Wikipedia)
  • Lead
    was a Chinese philosopher and politician
  • Infobox: birth_date
    January 11, 1868
  • Introduction
    He was the president of Peking University
  • In Group: Builders of National Education Systems, Article text
    was a Chinese philosopher and politician who was an influential figure in the history of Chinese modern education
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Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education: Cai Yuanpei's Vision of Aesthetic Education and His Legacy in Modern China
Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education
  • In Approach: Confucian Pedagogy, Introduction
    was rooted in humanist Confucianism and the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich
  • Informed By: Confucius, Abstract
    However, the Confucian roots of his aesthetic education seldom draw scholarly
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