Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t2.4

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de Paris. In 1910, he obtained the Bachelor Degree in Law and then started his research works in Collège de France. After the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, he returned to China and successively served as Hubei Governor’s Secretary, First Secretary of the House of Representatives, Secretary of the Education Ministry and head of the third division of the Special Education Department. In 1920s, he successively served as a professor of the History Department of Peking University, professor of the History Department of Beijing Normal University, and also engaged in translating European works on Orientalism. He stopped working after he had a stroke in 1929 and committed himself to translation till he died of illness in Peiping (present-day Beijing) on February 4, 1946.