Personal Data
Born January 11, 1868 (Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China)
Died March 5, 1940 (aged 72) (Hong Kong, China)
Occupation President of Peking University
Revolutionary
Educator
Politician
Parents Guangpu Cai (father) & Zhou (mother)
Education
1908 - 1912 Leipzig University, Gemany
Employment
1894 - 1899 Hanlin Imperial Academy, China, Superintendent of Shaoxing Chinese-Western School (紹興中西學堂監督)
1898 - 1899 Hanlin Imperial Academy, China, Head of Sheng District Shanshan College (嵊縣剡山書院院長)
1901 - 1902 Hanlin Imperial Academy, China, Director-Teacher of the Special Class of Nanyang Public School (南洋公學特班總教習)
1902 - 1903 China Education Association, China, Chairman
1902 - 1905 Patriotic Society, China, Vice-president
1904 - 1905 China Education Association, China, Chairman
1905 - 1907 Chinese Alliance, China, Shanghai bureau chief
1912,Jan - 1912,July Ministry of Education of the Republic of China, Minister
1916 - 1923 Peking University, China, President
1926 - 1928 China Council for the Promotion of Mandarin-, China, President
1928 - (Died) Chinese Central Academy, China, President
Awards and Honors
Membership-Professional Organizations
1904 - 1905 China Education Association, China, Chairman
Publications
Cai Yuanpei. Cai Jiemin Xiansheng Yanxing Lu [A Record of the Words and Actions of Cai Yuanpei]. Beijing, Beijing University, 1920.
Zhongxue Xioushen Gaoke Shu [School Moral Education]. Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1921.
Zhexue Gangyao [Essentials of Philosophy]. Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1924.
Zhongguo Lunlixue Shi [A History of Chinese Ethics]. Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1937.
Professional Interest Areas
Labor education, civilian education and women's education
Major Contributions to Adult Education
Cai brought China a bourgeois educational system.
Cai's thoughts effected Peking University to become the birthplace of the New Culture Movement, and created the conditions for the occurrence of the new democratic revolution
Cai protected a group of talented scholars with progressive thinking
Cai reformed Peking University, which is the best university in China.
Additional Resources
Articles
Photo Gallery
Video/Audio
Presentations
Books
Interesting Facts
References
Cai Jianguo (1998) (in German). Cai Yuanpei: Gelehrter und Mittler zwischen Ost und West. translated by: Stichler, Hans Christian. Münster [u.a.].
Wang Peili (1996) (in German). Wilhelm von Humboldt und Cai Yuanpei: eine vergleichende Analyse zweier klassischer Bildungskonzepte in der deutschen Aufklärung und in der ersten chinesischen Republik. Münster, New York: Waxmann.
Zhang, L. (2000). Cai yuanpei. XXIII(1/2), 147-157. Retrieved from http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/caie.pdf
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