Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t9.5

v2.c10.s2.t9.5

Yenching University in Beiping (present-day Beijing) and kept writing besides teaching. He also got acquainted with Lu Xun and many other celebrities in cultural circle. He came back to Shanghai in 1935, and served as dean of College of Liberal Arts of Jinan University. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, he wrote commentations etc and actively joined in the propaganda of the Anti-Japanese War. Meanwhile, he worked on literary studies, and published *Greek mythology* (1935), *History of Chinese Literature* (1938) and other works. From 1942-1945, he lived in seclusion at home and was engaged in literary study. In 1949, he went to Beijing to participate in the founding ceremony of People’s Republic of China. He served as the director of the Institute of Archaeology of Chinese Academy of Social Science in 1950, the director of the Institute of World Literature of Peking University in 1953, the vice-minister of the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China in 1954. He died in an aircraft accident in 1958.