Liu Shipei, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Liu Shipei

Chinese scholar

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1884

Place of Birth: Yizheng, Jiangsu, China

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1919

Profession: professor, historian, Esperantist, philosopher, political activist, philologist, opinion journalist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Liu Shipei (Chinese: ???; 1884–1919) was a philologist, Chinese anarchist, and revolutionary activist.
While he and his wife, He Zhen were in exile in Japan he became a fervent nationalist.
He then saw the doctrines of anarchism as offering a path to social revolution while remaining intent on preserving China's cultural essence, especially Taoism and the records of China's pre-imperial history.
In 1909 he unexpectedly returned to China to work for the Manchu government and after 1911 supported Yuan Shikai's attempt to become emperor.
After Yuan's death in 1916 he joined the faculty at Peking University.
He died of tuberculosis in 1919.