Liu Xuyi

In this Chinese name, the family name is Liu.

Liu Xuyi (Chinese: 刘绪贻; 13 May 1913 – 10 November 2018) was a Chinese historian, scholar, writer and expert on US studies.^[1][2]

Liu Xuyi
刘绪贻
Born	(1913-05-13)13 May 1913 Huangpi District, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Died	10 November 2018(2018-11-10) (aged 105) Wuhan, Hubei, China
Education	Tsinghua University University of Chicago
Occupation(s)	Historian, scholar, writer
Years active	1947–2018
Notable work	General History of the United States
Political party	Communist Party of China
Spouse	Zhou Shiying
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	劉緒貽
Simplified Chinese	刘绪贻
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Liǘ Xùyí

Biography

Liu was born into a poor intellectual family in Huangpi District of Wuhan, Hubei, on 13 May 1913, a year after the fall of the Qing dynasty.

In 1929 he attended the Hanyang No. 12 Middle School and then Hubei Provincial High School.

In 1933 he was accepted to Tsinghua University, where he majored in sociology.

In 1945 he arrived in the United States at the age of 32 to begin his education at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. He returned to China after graduation and worked as an associate professor in Wuhan University.

In 1949 he joined the New Democratic Education Association, a Communist Party's underground organization.

After the founding of the Communist State, he became secretary general of Wuhan University. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1953. Liu retired in 1989.^[1]

On 10 November 2018, he died of cerebrovascular disease in Wuhan, Hubei.^[1]

Personal life

Liu met Zhou Shiying (Chinese: 周世英) in 1935, when he attended a meeting held by the Hubei Federation of High School Graduates. They married in Chongqing.^[3]

Work

• 美国通史 [General History of the United States] (in Chinese). People's Publishing House. 2002. ISBN 9787010036441.
• 刘绪贻自传 [Autobiography of Liu Xuyi] (in Chinese). Guangxi Normal University Press. 2010. ISBN 9787563397877.
• 中国的儒学统治 [Confucian Rule in China] (in Chinese). Renmin University of China Press. 2014. ISBN 9787300191300.

References

1. . cssn.cn (in Chinese). 2018-11-12. Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
2. 历史学家刘绪贻逝世享年105岁 曾编《美国通史》. sina (in Chinese). 2018-11-11.
3. 历史学家刘绪贻逝世享年106岁 他曾追随爱情来到重庆. cqcb.com (in Chinese). 2018-11-11.