Xu Zhongyu, a lifelong professor of the Chinese Department of Chinese Literature and the Chinese Department of East China Normal University, died early this morning at the age of 105.In the late 1970s, he had proposed to restore university Chinese courses and wrote the first university textbooks in New China.
According to Sing Tao Daily, Xu Zhongyu was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu in 1915. He is a famous literary theorist, writer, and Chinese educator.He graduated from the Chinese Department of Central University in 1939, graduated from the Chinese Ministry of Literature at the Sun Yat -sen University Research Institute in 1941, and was a professor at the Chinese Department of East China Normal University in 1952.
After the Cultural Revolution, Xu Zhongyu, then director of the Chinese Department of East China Normal University, and Kuang Yaming, president of Nanjing University, resumed the opening of university Chinese courses, and organized experts to jointly write the first university Chinese textbooks in New China.Xu Zhongyu also authored Lu Xun's inheritance to explore works such as American impression in ancient literary and artistic creation theory.
In the preface of Chinese language in the new version of the university, Xu Zhongyu wrote: From the perspective of lsquo; humanistic rsquo; consider that the opening of university Chinese courses is conducive to enriching the spiritual world of students, which is conducive to cultivating sentiment, purifying the mind, and cultivating temperament.From the perspective of lsquo; tools of lsquo; in the perspective of ghost rsquo; to open university Chinese courses, it aims to complete the Chinese course in the basic education stage, so that the learning of Chinese language will not be interrupted, and the ability of college students to use the language use.
