Cai Shaoqing
Cai Shaoqing | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Cài Shǎoqīng |
IPA | [tsʰâɪ ʂàʊ.tɕʰíŋ] |
Cai Shaoqing | |
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蔡少卿 | |
Born | Hexing Township, Chinese secret societies | August 14, 1933
Notable works | On the Origins of the Tiandihui (关于天地会的起源问题) (1964) Research on the History of the Party in Modern China (中国近代会党史研究) (1987) Chinese Secret Society (中国秘密社会) (1989) Bandits in the Republic of China (民国时期的土匪) (1993) |
Cai Shaoqing (
Biography
Cai was born on 14 August 1933 in Hexing Township, Changshu (now part of Zhangjiagang) in Jiangsu province of the Republic of China. After graduating from Danan High School of Changshu, be was hired by the school as a teacher. He entered the Department of History of Peking University in 1956, and upon graduation in 1960, he became a teaching assistant to historian Shao Xunzheng (邵循正) while continuing his graduate studies at Peking University.[1]
In 1973, Cai was transferred to the Department of History of Nanjing University, where he taught until retirement in 2003. There he advised more than 80 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, as well as over 70 international scholars[1] including Elizabeth J. Perry, who later dedicated her book Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition to Cai Shaoqing and Yu Jianrong.[2]
From 1980, Cai was invited to teach at over sixty universities and research institutes in more than ten countries. He was named an "Outstanding Graduate Student Advisor" by the government of Jiangsu province
Cai died on 30 November 2019 in Nanjing, aged 86.[1]
Contributions
Cai is recognized as a leading authority on the history of
Together with Philip Billingsley, Cai pioneered research on the links between the Warlord Era and banditry during the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China. Rejecting the simplistic view that blamed the social disorder of the era on the moral bankruptcy of the warlords, they studied how population growth, government breakdown, military buildup and other factors contributed to banditry. Deserters from armies turned to banditry to make a living, and banditry in turn fuelled militarization as regional elites created militias to protect their localities.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Yue, Huairang (2019-12-06). "著名历史学家蔡少卿逝世,长期致力于秘密结社和近代史研究". The Paper. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
- ^ Elizabeth J. Perry (Pei Yili) (2016-10-24). "我的老师蔡少卿,一位中国顶尖的社会史学家" [My teacher Cai Shaoqing, a top Chinese scholar of social history]. The Paper. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- ISSN 1174-8915.
- ISSN 0206-149X.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7656-4116-8.
- ISBN 978-0-19-829617-1.