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Cai Yuanpei
Cai Yuanpei was a Chinese philosopher and politician, born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, who was an influential figure in the history of modern Chinese education. A founder of the Guangfuhui in 1904 and a member of the Tongmenghui, he studied at Leipzig and became Minister of Education of the new Republic of China in 1912. As president of Peking University from 1917 he recruited Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao and Hu Shih as well as conservative scholars, defended academic freedom and admitted the first women in 1920; in 1919 he resigned in protest when the May Fourth student leaders were jailed. In April 1928 he helped found the Academia Sinica and became its first president. He died in Hong Kong in 1940.
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