Wu Han
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1909 – 1969
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Who was Wu Han?
Wu Han was one of the most important historians in the development of modern historical scholarship in China with his work in the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1940s he was a leading member of the Democratic League, a non-aligned Third Force. After 1949, he was Deputy-Mayor of Peking. In November 1965, at the start of the Cultural Revolution, he came under severe attack for his play about an upright Ming dynasty official. He committed suicide in prison in 1969.
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- Born
- Aug 11, 1909
Yiwu - Also known as
- Han Wu
- Education
- Zhejiang University
- Tsinghua University
- Lived in
- Zhejiang
- Died
- Oct 11, 1969
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on July 23, 2013
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