Ke Xiangfeng's life

Ke Xiangfeng (1900 ~ 1983), Ming Sen, was born in Guoxi Street, Guichi County, Anhui Province. /kloc-entered Nanjing Jinling Middle School at the age of 0/2. After graduation, he was promoted to Jinling University, majoring in economics. 12 (1923) graduated from jinda university with a bachelor of arts and stayed as a teaching assistant.

From 16 to 19, Ke Xiangfeng studied in France and was awarded a doctorate by the Institute of Lyon University, France. He soon became a researcher at the Institute of University of London in England and returned to China 20 years later. He established the Department of Sociology in Jinling University (the first in China) and served as professor, dean and provost of the school.

In 1936, Ke Xiangfeng went to London to give lectures at the invitation of the British Council. Soon, he went to the United States from Britain, where he worked as a researcher at Princeton University and studied population issues at the University of Chicago and the US Population Bureau. In 37 years, Ke Xiangfeng returned to China and continued to hold his original post at Jinling University. After the liberation of China, Ke Xiangfeng worked as an English teacher in the Foreign Languages Department of Nanjing University. 1September, 978, Nanjing University rebuilt the Department of Economics, and Ke was transferred to the Population Research Office of the Department of Economics.

Ke Xiangfeng has been engaged in sociological research all his life and made great contributions to population issues. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, he had made three field investigations in Yi and other ethnic minority areas and obtained a lot of first-hand information. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he wrote to the Central Committee many times and put forward detailed suggestions on the implementation of family planning as a basic national policy. Even during the "Cultural Revolution" when he was in the bullpen, he never stopped exploring the population problem in China.

Ke Xiangfeng insists on truth and pays attention to honesty. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the upper echelons of the National Government asked him to be a "legislator" and other senior officials several times, but he declined politely. In 36 years of the Republic of China, the struggle against hunger, persecution and civil war in Nanjing was in full swing, and young students were often under the surveillance of Kuomintang spies. Ke Xiangfeng expressed deep sympathy for this. He took advantage of his legal position and the reputation of well-known scholars at home and abroad to conduct a rational and well-controlled contest with Kuomintang spies, and rescued Xie Jianzhong, a progressive student in the Department of Sociology of Jinling University (the secret of party member and China of the Communist Party of China, who worked in Jiangxi Academy of Social Sciences after liberation).

Ke Xiangfeng is proficient in English and French and can read Russian books. During many years of winter and summer vacations, he gave up his rest and taught foreign languages to students inside and outside the school. He is responsive and does not charge any tuition.

In 35 years, after the founding of the United Nations, Chinese was designated as one of the general languages of the conference. Entrusted by the United Nations Secretariat, Ke Xiangfeng translated all the English versions of relevant treaties in the Middle East into Chinese, printed by the Commercial Press, and sent them to the United Nations during 36-37 years of the Republic of China. During the Cultural Revolution, he not only struggled and worked, but also took time to revise an English-Chinese dictionary. He said, "There are many mistakes in this dictionary. If you don't correct it, you will delay the reader. " After 1970s, Ke Xiangfeng was over 70 years old and often recited Japanese words, trying to make another breakthrough in the field of foreign language learning.

Ke Xiangfeng had close contacts with domestic celebrities before his death. In the late 1920s, he met Xu Beihong, a famous China painter, in Lyon, France, and had frequent contacts with each other. During his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Xu Beihong taught at Central University and personally drew a horse as a gift for Ke Xiangfeng. At that time, Huang Yanpei, a famous social activist, was also in Chongqing, and he had a very close relationship with Guo Ke. He once wrote a banner for Ke, "I love Huaxi Dam, and scholars gather in clouds ...". Fei Xiaotong is a famous sociologist in China and a colleague and close friend of Ke Xiangfeng. After liberation, Fei Xiaotong once envisaged transferring Ke Xiangfeng to the Central Institute for Nationalities to study population issues nearby. Because Fei Xiaotong was treated unfairly in the "anti-rightist struggle", this move failed.

1980, 80-year-old Ke Xiangfeng still stuck to his desk and sent a paper entitled "The Great Strategic Significance of Moving to the Frontier and Strengthening National Defense", which was published in Journal of Nanjing University. This is the last work of his decades of academic career. 19821February, that is, before ke xiangfeng died1October, he wrote a letter to his elder sister ke weilan who was far away in los Angeles, urging her to return to China to settle down and set up education. The letter said: "... Taipei will eventually return to the motherland. You should have a mirror ... Is it the best policy to rely on others? ..... Come back! Help me run several schools in Nanjing ... "

1983101On October 23rd, Ke Xiangfeng died in Nanjing. He used to be a consultant of China Population Society, China Social Society and China Family Planning Association, and a member of Jiu San Society. His main works are: Poverty in China and Population in China (published by Zhong Zheng Bookstore before liberation). The main translations are: Selected Works of Owen and Selected Works of Hegel (published by the Commercial Press after liberation).