Chen Yuan (historian), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Chinese historian and educator
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Place of Birth: Xinhui District, Guangdong, China
About Chen Yuan (historian)
- Chen Yuan (1880–1971) was a Chinese historian and educator.
- He is known by his work in the fields of religious history, Yuan Dynasty history, textology and textual criticism.
- Chen was professor of Peking University, Beijing Normal University and Fu Jen Catholic University, and later served as the president of Beijing Normal University.
- Before 1949, he also served as the president of Metropolitan Library and the Palace Museum library. From 1917, Chen began to work on history of Christianity in China, and later published his name-earning book Research of Arkaguns in Yuan Dynasty («??????»).
- Arkagun is the name given to Christian in Yuan Dynasty.
- Subsequently, he published several books about the spreading of Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism and Islam in China.
- Chen also paid great attention to collation work on Code of Yuan Dynasty («???»).
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