Cai Yuanpei

Cai Yuanpei (Chinese蔡元培, Pinyin Cai Yuanpei, W.-G. Ts'ai Yuan- p'ei; Zì鹤 卿/鹤 卿, Heqing, Ho - ch'ing; milk阿培name, APEI, Ā p'ei, epithet孑 民, Jiemin, Chieh -min, Lonely citizens '; born January 11, 1868 in Shanyin, Shaoxing County, Zhejiang Province, † March 5, 1940 in Hong Kong ) was a Chinese educator and anthropologist and president of the Peking University. He was known for his critical evaluation of the Chinese culture and is therefore considered as triggers of the movement of May 4

Life

Cai became a member of the Imperial Hanlin Academy with 26 years. In 1898 he was involved in the management of educational institutions and has been

• Inspector of Shaoxing Chinese - Western School (绍兴 中西 学堂 监督)
• Head of District Sheng Shanshan College (嵊 县 剡 山 书院 院长)
• Director and teacher of the special class of Nanyang Public School (南洋 公 学 特 班 总 教 习)

He founded in 1904 Guangfuhui and was in the following year a member of the Tongmenghui.

After 1907 he studied philosophy, psychology, art history and anthropology at the University of Leipzig va Karl Lamprecht, Wilhelm Wundt and Karl Weule, he was in the January 1912 Education Minister of the Provisional Republic of China but resigned under the presidency of Yuan Shikai. He returned to Germany and then went to France.

Cai returned in 1916 back to China to be Rector of Peking University the following year. In 1927 he was co-founder of the National Academy of Music, was born from the later, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In April 1928 he became the first president of the Academia Sinica.

Cai stipulierte the equivalent importance of the five lifestyles virtue, wisdom, health, collective and Beauty (德,智,体,群,美), as they are still taught today in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao as a slogan. He was an opponent of Fußbindens and concubinage, as well as a proponent of divorce and remarriage.

Cai Yuanpei died at the age of 72 years in Hong Kong.