On this day 35 years ago, on August 2, 1990 (June 12, 1990 in the lunar calendar), Wu Zelin, a contemporary Chinese ethnologist and educator, passed away. Contemporary Chinese ethnologist and educator. Born in Changshu, Jiangsu. Han nationality. In 1913, he was admitted to Tsinghua Academy (the predecessor of Tsinghua University), and studied in the United States after graduating in 1922. He received bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin, the University of Missouri and the University of Ohio. In 1927, he went to Europe to investigate the social conditions of Britain, France, Germany and Italy. After returning to China in 1928, he successively served as professor of sociology, department chairperson, dean of the School of Literature and provost of Shanghai Daxia University. From 1935 to 1937, he concurrently served as director and provost of the Overseas Cultural Division of Shanghai Jinan University. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Wu Zelin moved to Guiyang with some teachers and students of Daxia University. In February 1941, he went to Kunming Southwest United University to teach. From 1943 to 1945, he concurrently served as the deputy director of the Kunming Translator Training Class, presided over the training of about 3,000 college students, and served as interpreters for the US Army's anti-Japanese combat troops in China. In 1946, he served as the head of the Department of Anthropology and provost of Tsinghua University. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wu Zelin successively served as a professor and curator of the Ethnic Heritage Museum at Southwest University of Nationalities, a professor at the Central Institute for Nationalities, a researcher at the Institute of Ethnic Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a professor at the Department In addition, he also served as a consultant to the Chinese Sociological Society, the Chinese Ethnological Research Society, the Chinese Anthropological Society, the China World Ethnic Studies Society, the Chinese Folklore Society, the Southwest Ethnic Studies Society of China, the Southern China Ethnic Minorities Philosophy and Social Thought Research Society, the Beijing and Wuhan Sociological Sociological Societies Society, and the honorary president of the Hubei Sociological Society. As early as the early 1930s, Wu Zelin, Sun Benwen, Wu Jingchao, Chen Da, Xu Shilian, etc. successively initiated the organization of the Southeast Sociological Society and the Chinese Sociological Society, and organized the publication of regular publications. During the Anti-Japanese War and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he often went to the Southwest Minority Areas to conduct ethnological surveys and actively advocated the development of the Chinese Ethnic Museum. In 1979, he participated in the Wu Zelin devoted himself to the research of sociology, ethnology and the museum of ethnology, and made contributions to the foundation and development of Chinese sociology, ethnology and anthropology. His main works are: "Sociology and Social Problems", "Modern Race", "Social Constraints", "World Population Problems" (co-edited with Ye Shaochun), "Guizhou Miao Yi Society Survey" (co-edited with Chen Guo), "Guizhou Dingfan County Rural Teaching Materials Survey Report", "Guizhou Qingshui River Basin Part of the Miao marriage", and there are many translations. Chinese sociologist, ethnologist, anthropologist. Born in Changshu, Jiangsu on October 28, 1898. After graduating from Tsinghua Academy in Beijing in 1922, he went to the University of Wisconsin and the University of Missouri in the United States to major in sociology. In 1927, he received a doctorate from Ohio State University. He went to Britain, France, Germany and Italy to investigate local social conditions. After returning to China in 1928, he served as a professor of sociology, dean of the department and dean of the School of Literature of Shanghai Daxia University, professor of Shanghai Guanghua University, Jinan University, Fudan Daxia United University, Southwest United University, professor of Tsinghua University, director of the Department of Anthropology and provost. From 1928 to 1930, he initiated the organization of the Southeast Society and the Chinese Society with Sun Wenwen and Chen Da, and served as the first director. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as a professor and curator of the Ethnic Heritage Museum of Southwest University for Nationalities, a professor at the Central University for Nationalities and a researcher at the Institute of Ethnic Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an adjunct professor at Nankai University Guizhou University, and a professor at the Central South University for Nationalities. Retired in 1989. He served as a consultant to the Chinese Sociological Society, the Chinese Ethnological Research Society, the Chinese Anthropological Society, and the China World Ethnic Studies Society. He died in Wuhan on August 2, 1990. His main works include: "Social Constraints" (1930), "Modern Race" (1932), "Sociology and Social Problems" (1935), "World Population Problems" (1937), "The Life of Black Seedlings in Lushan" ( Wu Zelin linked sociology with ethnology, anthropology and other disciplines, and conducted interdisciplinary research on social phenomena. In his book Modern Race in the early 1930s, he foresaw the crisis of overpopulation in China and advocated improving the quality of the nation. Later, with scholars such as Pan Guangdan and Chen Heqin, he called for "immediate and public promotion of birth control." He put forward unique views on the meaning, generation, division standards and classification of race, and refuted the idea that race is inherently unequal. His book "Social Constraint" is the earliest sociological work in China devoted to the issue of social control. He emphasized the relevance of social control and believed that the whole society must play the role of such control in order to ensure the normal operation of society. He also clearly distinguished the tools and methods of social control.