Dr Ch’ien Mu dropped out of high school and became a historian through self-study and teaching in rural areas. He taught at various universities including Yanjing, Peking, Tsinghua, Huaxi, Sichuan, Qilu, and National Southwest Association University. In 1949, Ch’ien founded New Asia College in Hong Kong. Later, the Hong Kong government invited him to help establish the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to which he made significant contributions.
His works include Chronological Table of the Philosophers of the Pre-Qin Period, which describes the evolution of pre-Qin academic thought from Confucius to Li Si, and Biographies of Liu Xiang and Liu Xin, which opened up a new path for the incorporation of history into classical learning. In his later years, he completed Late School Blind, a 600,000-word publication that discussed Chinese and Western cultures from his own philosophical and cultural perspectives, and clarified and promoted traditional Chinese culture.
