47 years ago today, on July 4, 1978 (May 29, 1978 lunar calendar), Chinese historian Xiao Yishan died. Xiao Yishan (1902-1978.7.4) Chinese historian. Jiangsu Tongshan (now Xuzhou City) people. Formerly known as Guisen, the name is not Yu, the word is a mountain, with the word line. Young family studies, aspiring to specialize in the history of the Qing Dynasty. At the age of nineteen, he was admitted to Peking University by the preparatory department of Shanxi University. He was studied by Liang Qichao and had a glimpse of the path of study. He was determined to open up a new realm for Chinese historiography with new methods. He buried his first book after class. During two years, he wrote two volumes of "General History of the Qing Dynasty" (published by Shanghai Zhonghua Book Bureau), with smooth writing and detailed historical materials. Liang Qichao, Li Dazhao, Zhu Xizu and other seniors and Japanese Jinxilong Dr. Subsequent to the middle volume. The following year after graduating from university, he taught at Tsinghua University, coexisted with Liang Qichao day and night, determined to learn and govern the history of the Qing Dynasty. He was successively hired by Peking University, Peiping Normal University and Nanjing Central University to teach the history of the Qing Dynasty. The first and second volumes of "General History of the Qing Dynasty" were published by the Shanghai Commercial Press. During his teaching time in Beijing, Mr. Xiao was once interested in reforming the education system. In 1929, he founded a new type of school from primary school to university - the School of Literature, History and Politics. He hired fellow students Huang Xianfan and others to teach at the college. The original plan was to cultivate talents with literary, historical and political literacy in a relatively short period of time, in order to change the disadvantages of the old system of scattered disciplines and difficult to concentrate. But later it was stopped due to funding difficulties, and his attempt to reform the academic system failed to materialize. At the age of 30, he received special funding to go to Europe and the United States for research. He first went to Britain for more than a year, collecting materials on modern Chinese history at the British Museum in London and the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, paying attention to the study of British politics. In the new year, he traveled from Britain to Germany, France, and Italy. He returned to China in 1934. With the historical materials newly obtained from overseas, he has edited and published the first episode of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Series, the Edict of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Book of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Historical Materials of the Modern Secret Society, etc., which has brought the study of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to a new level in domestic historians. Afterwards, he served as the dean of the School of Literature of Henan University and the dean of the School of Literature of Northeastern University and Northwest University, and still taught Qing history. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Xiao moved inward with Northeastern University in Santai, Sichuan, and was hired by the Ministry of Education as one of the three professors of history (Xiao Yishan, Chen Yinke, Liu Yizhen), who lectured on his writings day and night. Yueyue wrote two books, "Outline of Qing History" and "Biography of Zeng Guofan", which explained in detail the evolution of Chinese cultural traditions and modern history, especially the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the success of Zeng Guofan, Tso Zongtang, Peng Yulin, and Hu Linyi. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xiao served as the secretary-general of Peking Xingyuan and was elected as the supervisory committee of the first supervisory committee of the National Government. In the winter of 1948, on the eve of the peaceful liberation of Peking, Xiao went to Taiwan with his family. Two years later, he completed the "Self-Description of the Non-Yu Pavilion"; at the request of the Taipei Chinese Culture Publishing Committee, he compiled two books, "History of the Qing Dynasty" and "Introduction to National Culture". Since 1950, he has been engaged in the revision of "General History of the Qing Dynasty". It has been nearly 40 years since the first volume was published. In 1976, he was appointed as a historical review committee member of the "National History Museum" in Taipei and a communication researcher at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. In the mid-1930s, Xiao initiated the establishment of the Jingshi Society, publishing "Jingshi Semimonthly Magazine", "Jingshi Wartime Special Issue", "Jingshi Series", "Jingshi Daily", etc. His unpublished works include "Lectures on General History of China" (originally written at Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Beijing Normal University, written until the Song Dynasty, but the manuscript has been lost) and "Fifty Autobiographies and Thirty Years of Experience". He died in Taipei on July 4, 1978. In September 1985, the Zhonghua Book Bureau published his famous work "General History of the Qing Dynasty" based on the fifth edition of the 1980 revised edition of the Taiwan Commercial Press, in hardcover five volumes. Comments: Chinese historian, the first person to study the history of the Qing Dynasty.