The Life of Characters in Yan's Works

Yan, born in 1905, comes from a poor family, but he studies hard. 1924 was admitted to yenching university, majoring in sociology.

From 65438 to 0927, he took advantage of the school summer vacation to investigate in Shi Jing No.1 Prison near Taoranting. His investigation method is unacceptable. He put down the shelf of college students, went deep into the prison line as a volunteer, was responsive, put on prison clothes, shared prison meals with criminals, worked together, tasted life behind bars, and wrote many valuable papers, such as Analysis of Criminal Society in Beijing and Prison Problems in China.

1928 After graduating from Yan University, he stayed in yenching university as a graduate student and part-time teaching assistant to continue studying criminology. On one occasion, he led students to investigate prisoners in 20 cities across the country and collected more than 300 cases. 1930 was hired as a research assistant by the Institute of Social Studies, Academia Sinica. At the suggestion of Yang Xingfo, Director-General of the Institute, he represented the government of China at the international prison conference held in the Czech Republic. Taking advantage of this international conference, Yan visited the Soviet Union, France and Britain. Later, he entered the University of Chicago to study. 1934 received a doctorate in criminology. The doctoral thesis is "The Relationship between Crime Problems and Social Changes in China".

Yan Yu/KLOC-0 returned to China in June, 1965 and still teaches in yenching university. In 65438+February of the same year, the December 29th student movement led by China broke out. He actively encouraged and supported students to participate in the patriotic movement of resisting Japan and saving the nation. Under the pressure of Kuomintang reactionaries, Yan left the university platform and came to Shanghai. At that time, it happened that Tilanqiao Prison was openly recruiting a deputy warden. Yan, who is proficient in criminology and has experience in prison work, is very interested in this position. From the perspective of management system, Tilanqiao Prison is a British model, and Shi Jing No.1 Prison is a Japanese model. The old Tilanqiao prison, known as the first prison in the Far East, is the product of foreign colonialism's violation of China's judicial sovereignty. May 1903 Prison was officially opened. The warden (once known as the prison director) is mostly British, and there is an American named Simms as the warden. With the continuous expansion of the prison scale, the number of prisoners has increased dramatically, and the original guards are all Indians. Since 1930, there have been China guards. In order to facilitate management, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of Shanghai Public Concession decided to hire a deputy warden of China in the prison. The special news of open recruitment was released in the application of 1935 12 14. The condition is that they must be between 28 and 40 years old, preferably unmarried, and have experience in Lu Haijun, police or prison affairs, but people over 25 don't need to apply for special qualifications ... This became a hot topic in the streets of Shanghai at that time. Yan was recommended by his teacher, Mr. Xiang Guan of Datong (he was the head of the Department of Law of yenching university, a native of Yuhuan, Zhejiang, and then the president of the District Court of Shanghai No.1 Special Zone). 1September, 936, Yan became the deputy warden of Tilanqiao prison. Mainly responsible for the education and management of juvenile offenders in prisons. Yan served more than five years in Tilanqiao prison, and was released from prison on 1942.

Strict scholarship, solid foundation, continuous exploration and innovation, can break through the original framework and model academically, and combine social problems, cultural environment and criminal phenomena for investigation and research. He wrote many papers in his life and published them in Chinese and English in foreign newspapers and periodicals such as Sociology, Public Comment Series, Democracy, China Construction, New Construction and New Observation. The content involves sociology, criminology, prison science and so on. He is the author of The Relationship between Crime Problems and Social Changes in China (Peking University Press, 6.5438+0.8 million words) and Yan Essays (Ming Kai Press, 300,000 words).

On May 6th and 7th, 1957, Yan, as a representative of the National People's Congress, inspected the Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison and the Shanghai Juvenile Delinquency Center in Gao Qiao Town, Pudong. Yan carefully watched the prison room, workshop and related facilities, and had a discussion with the staff. After returning to Beijing, he wrote a paper "China's New Prison System" with great feelings, which was published in the English version of China Construction in that year.

Yan is a representative of the first, second and third National People's Congress. Yan has served as the executive director of the first, second and third Central Committees of China Association for the Promotion of Democracy, and the fourth and fifth Central Committees of China Association for the Promotion of Democracy.

1976 65438+1October 12. Yan died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in Beijing at the age of 72.