On this day, 57 years ago, on December 18, 1968 (October 29, 1968 in the lunar calendar), Jian Bozan and his wife died unjustly. Jian Bozan Jian Bozan (1898-1968) was a China historian. His original name was Xiang Shi. People from Taoyuan, Hunan. Uyghurs. Born in Taoyuan on April 14, 1898. In the summer of 1924, he went to the United States and entered the University of California to study economics. He returned to Beijing in January 1926 to engage in research on Marxism and China history. Since 1930, he has actively participated in debates on the nature of China society and social history issues. Joined the Communist Party of China in May 1937. After the July 7th Incident, he served as a professor at the University of the Republic of China in Peiping, who moved south, and published the famous book "A Course in Historical Philosophy." In February 1940, he went to Chongqing and engaged in secret work under the leadership of Zhou Enlai. He has published more than 60 historical papers, and also authored two volumes 1 and 2 of "The History of China", which are guided by Marxism and have detailed content. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he went to Shanghai in May 1946 to organize and lead the "Shanghai University Professors Association" with Zhang Zhirang, Zhou Gucheng and others, and concurrently served as a professor at Daxia University. He came to Hong Kong in October 1947 and served as a professor at Tak College. In November 1948, he left Hong Kong with Guo Moruo, Hou Wailu and others, and arrived in Peiping on February 1 of the following year to participate in the preparations for the China People's Political Consultative Conference and was elected as a member of the first CPPCC National Committee. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served successively as professor of the Department of Sociology at Yanjing University, professor and chairman and vice president of the Department of History at Peking University, member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, executive director and secretary-general of the Chinese History Society, member of the Culture and Education Committee of the State Council, and member of the Central Ethnic Affairs Committee. Since the early 1950s, Jian Bozan has been committed to the construction of history. First, he initiated the compilation of the "China Modern History Data Series", which has a total of 11 topics and about 20 million words. He personally edited two special topics,"The 1898 Coup" and "Boxer Rebellion". Since the spring of 1961, he has concurrently served as the head of the history textbook editing and review team of colleges and universities across the country, editor-in-chief of the general textbooks "Outline of China History" and "Reference Materials for Teaching Ancient History of China." He published a paper criticizing the ultra-leftist trend of thought that had emerged in the late 1950s in the history world. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, he was classified as a "reactionary bourgeois academic authority." On the night of December 18, 1968, he and his wife died at Peking University with an injustice. On September 1, 1978, the Party Committee of Peking University of the Communist Party of China vindicated Jian Bozan's rebellion. Jian Bozan is a rich author, publishing more than 300 papers and 7 or 8 monographs, totaling more than 4 million words. Important collections of papers include Series 1 and 2 of "Essays on China History","Essays on Historical Issues"(updated edition),"Selected Essays on Historical Papers of Jian Bozan", and "Historical Materials and History"; Monographs include "Recent World Capitalist Economy"(Part 2),"Course in Historical Philosophy", and "Outline of China History" Volumes 1 and 2 (the revised version is renamed "History of the Pre-Qin Dynasty" and "History of the Qin and Han Dynasties", and the editor-in-chief is "Outline of China History","Chronology of Chinese and Foreign History", and co-edited "Outline of China History". In addition, he also edited "Reference Materials for General History of China" with Zheng Tianting.