It should be read as chén yín què, but it cannot be said that it is wrong to read it as chén yín kè.
The pronunciation of the word "Ke" in Mr. Chen Yinke's name is quite controversial. Most people pronounce "ke", while most people in the cultural and academic circles pronounce "que". According to the records in the article "Recalling Yin Ke" by Yang Buwei and Zhao Yuanren, some scholars believe that Mr. Zhao Yuanren pointed out that "Mr. Chen himself pronounced 'ke' as ke".
Chen Yinke (July 3, 1890 - October 7, 1969), courtesy name Heshou, was born in Xiushui, Jiangxi. A rare figure in modern China who combines historians, classical literature researchers, linguists, and poets. Together with Ye Qisun, Pan Guangdan, and Mei Yiqi, he is listed as the four major philosophers in the century-old history of Tsinghua University. Together with Lu Si Mian, Chen Yuan, and Qian Mu are collectively known as the "Four Great Masters of Predecessor Historiography". He has successively taught at Tsinghua University, Southwest Associated University, Guangxi University, Yenching University, Sun Yat-sen University, etc.
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Chen Yinke is not only a great historian, but also outstanding in old-style poetry. He admired Tao Yuanming and Du Fu. Although he liked the poems of Li Bai and Li Yishan, he did not think them to be of high quality. He especially liked poetry that was popular among the people, so he admired Bai Juyi the most. In his "On the Destiny of Rebirth", he said, "When discussing poetry, I also play the style of poetry." "Shi Cun" came out. His life works were compiled and collated by his student Jiang Tianshu, professor of the Chinese Department of Fudan University. A two-volume, 2 million-word "Collected Works of Chen Yinke" was compiled into a volume in 1979 and published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House.
He was born in Changsha, Hunan, in the 16th year of Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1890). His grandmother, Mrs. Huang, named her Yin Ke because of the Yin year of his birth. Ke was the senior among brothers. Chen Yinke was initiated into the family school when he was a child, learning the Four Books and Five Classics, arithmetic, geography and other knowledge.
After the death of his grandfather Chen Baozhen in the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), Chen Sanli moved his family to Jinling, Jiangsu, and opened Siyi School at home, teaching the Four Books and Five Classics, mathematics, English, physical education, music, painting, etc. Courses, teachers have been hired including masters of Chinese studies Wang Boxang, Liu Yimou, and Zhou Dalie.
Two generations of the Chen family have always advocated the New Deal, and the "Siyi School" took the lead in adopting modern education. Chen Sanli made an appointment with the teachers not to beat the students and not to memorize rote books. They adopted a new style of work and won the hearts of the people. At that time, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Liangjiang, appreciated it. With such a family background, Chen Yinke not only laid a solid foundation in Chinese studies since childhood, but also expanded his horizons to the East and the West. Before studying in Japan, he "learned Japanese from his friends who were studying in Japan."
In the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu (1902), Chen Yinke followed his brother Hengke to Japan and entered Sugamo Hongwen College.
In the 31st year of Guangxu's reign (1905), he dropped out of school and returned to China due to foot illness, and later studied at Shanghai Fudan Public School.
In the second year of Xuantong (1910), he studied abroad at his own expense, and successively attended the University of Berlin in Germany, the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and the Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, France. The First World War broke out and he returned to China in 1914.
In the winter of the seventh year of the Republic of China (1918), he received funding from Jiangxi officials and went abroad to study again. He first studied Sanskrit and Pali with Professor Lanman at Harvard University in the United States.
In the 10th year of the Republic of China (1921), he transferred to the University of Berlin in Germany to study oriental ancient philology with Professor Ludsch. At the same time, he learned Central Asian ancient glyphs from Miao Qin and Mongolian from Heinis. During this period, he studied diligently and accumulated all kinds of knowledge, and he had the ability to read eight languages: Sanskrit, Pali, Persian, Turkic, Tangut, English, French and German, especially Sanskrit and Pali.
Writing is a tool for studying history. He has a profound foundation in Chinese studies, is proficient in national history, and absorbs a lot of Western culture. Therefore, his insights are highly praised by scholars at home and abroad.
In the fourteenth year of the Republic of China (1925), Chen Yinke returned to China. At this time, Tsinghua School was restructured into a university and a graduate school of Chinese studies was established. Hu Shi proposed the adoption of a tutor system. Its "basic concept is to use modern scientific methods to organize the national heritage." The most famous scholars at that time, Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, Chen Yinke, Zhao Yuanren and others were appointed as tutors, and they were known as Tsinghua's four great masters of Chinese studies.
Wu Mi, the director of the institute at the time, thought highly of him and considered him "the most knowledgeable and knowledgeable". Liang Qichao strongly recommended Chen Yinke as his mentor to the principal Cao Yunxiang, and introduced to others: "Mr. Chen's knowledge is better than mine."
In June of the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926), when he was only 36 years old, he and Liang Qichao , and Wang Guowei were applied as tutors of the institute together, and they were called the "Tsinghua Big Three".
In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928), he married Tang Yun, the granddaughter of Taiwan Governor Tang Jingsong, in Shanghai. The two had three daughters, and they loved each other throughout their lives.
In the 18th year of the Republic of China (1929), in his inscription on Wang Guowei, he first proposed the academic spirit and value orientation pursued by "the spirit of independence and the thought of freedom". At that time, he was supervising graduate students at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and teaching part-time at Peking University. At the same time, he was researching and writing on Buddhist classics and frontier history. Courses in Chinese, history, and Buddhist studies are offered at Tsinghua University.
When he lectures, he may quote multiple languages ????to support history, or quote poems to cite history, from "Lianchang Palace Ci" to "Pipa Xing" and "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", all of which are spoken without hesitation, and the source of the text is , are all accurate, and the accompanying analysis is even more precise and impressive! Despite his reputation, he is simple and honest, modest and confident, sincere and not pretentious, and is known as a scholar.
In the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), Tsinghua Academy of Chinese Studies ceased operations. Chen Yinke served as professor of the three departments of history, Chinese, and philosophy at Tsinghua University, director of the Academia Sinica, and leader of the first group of the Institute of History and Linguistics. The Palace Museum Director and other positions.
In July of the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China (1937), the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and the Japanese army approached Pingjin. Chen Yinke's father, Chen Sanli, went on an indignant hunger strike and died suddenly. After the funeral, Yin Ke moved south with the school and lived a wandering life.
In the autumn of the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), Southwest Associated University moved to Kunming, and he arrived in Kunming with the school.
In the spring of the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), Oxford University in the United Kingdom hired him as a professor of Sinology and awarded him the title of researcher of the Royal Society. He was the first professor of Chinese language and sinology employed at the school, which was a high honor at the time. He left Kunming for Hong Kong, intending to take a transfer with his family to England to teach at the University of Oxford. However, due to the outbreak of World War II, he was forced to live in Hong Kong temporarily and served as a visiting professor and director of the Chinese Department of the University of Hong Kong.
On December 8, the 30th year of the Republic of China (1941), the Pacific War broke out and the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. Chen Yinke immediately resigned and lived in leisure. The Japanese authorities appointed him to run the Institute of Oriental Literature with a daily payment of 400,000 yuan. Firmly refuse.
In the spring of the 31st year of the Republic of China (1942), someone was ordered by the Japanese to specially invite him to teach in Shanghai, which had been occupied by the Japanese army. He refused the order again and immediately left Hong Kong and traveled to Guilin via Guangzhou Bay. He successively served as a professor at Guangxi University and Sun Yat-sen University, and soon moved to Yenching University to teach.
During this period, while he was busy teaching, he was still committed to academic research. He published two works, "A Essay on the Origin of Institutions in the Sui and Tang Dynasties" and "A Essay on the Political History of the Tang Dynasty", proposing an analysis of the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It has gained many new insights and opened up new ways for future generations to study the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
In the thirty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1945), after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Yinke once again applied to teach at Oxford University and went to London for eye treatment. However, due to an unsuccessful operation in China before, Chen Yinke again After being diagnosed and operated by a British doctor, the eye disease worsened, and finally he was given a diagnosis that blindness was a foregone conclusion. With disappointment, Yin Ke resigned from his contract and returned to his motherland in 1949, where he taught at Tsinghua University and continued to engage in academic research.
On the eve of liberation, he went to Guangzhou and refused the invitation of Fu Sinian, director of the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica, to go to Taiwan and Hong Kong to teach at Lingnan University in Guangzhou. After the adjustment of departments, Lingnan University merged with Sun Yat-sen University, and then the teaching was transferred to Sun Yat-sen University.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he was successively elected as a member of the Department of Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy director of the Chinese Museum of Culture and History, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Third National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. (According to the "Chronicles of Mr. Chen Yinke", only Guo Moruo, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wrote a letter to invite Chen Yinke to serve as the second director of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences and History of the Academy of Sciences. It was noted that the resignation was not accepted and Chen Yuan was recommended to take his place.
According to the "Xiushui County Chronicle"), he continued to serve as a professor at Sun Yat-sen University.
In 1957, treatment for eye diseases began.
In 1962, when his right leg fell and fractured, Hu Qiaomu went to visit him and expressed concern about the publication of his anthology. He said: "There is a time to close the coffin, but there is no date for publication." Hu Qiaomu smiled and replied: "There is a time to publish, but it is still early to close the coffin." With the help of his assistant, he compiled "A Essay on the Origin of Institutions in the Sui and Tang Dynasties" and "A Essay on the Political History of the Tang Dynasty" "Old articles other than "Yuanbai Poems and Papers" were compiled into "Hanliutang Collection" and "Jinmingguan Collection", and he wrote the monograph "Liu Rushu's Biography", and finally wrote "Hanliutang Ji Meng".
His assistant Huang Xuan once said with emotion: "In his later years when he was blind, Master Yin was not afraid of hard work and hard work, and he stayed in seclusion to complete this manuscript (i.e. "Liu Rushi's Farewell Biography"). His perseverance His spirit is truly shocking and weeping.”
After the Cultural Revolution began, Chen Yinke was brutally tortured. What made him most sad was that many of the books, poems and manuscripts he had collected for many years were looted.
On October 7, 1969, he passed away in Guangzhou; on November 21, his wife Tang Yun passed away.
Reference materials: Chen Yinke? Baidu Encyclopedia