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 ===== Biography =====
-Cai Yuanpei (蔡元培, Thái Nguyên Bồi) was one of the most influential educators and thinkers of modern China, widely credited with transforming Chinese higher education during the turbulent transition from the Qing dynasty to the Republic of China. Born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, Cai received a rigorous classical education in the Confucian tradition, passing the imperial examination at a young age and earning the prestigious jinshi degree, after which he briefly served as an official in the Qing court. The defeat of China in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) shook his faith in the old order and redirected him toward education as the path to national renewal. He resigned his imperial post, founded patriotic schools, and studied abroad in Japan, Germany (notably at Leipzig under [[wilhelm_wundt|Wilhelm Wundt]]), and France, absorbing German philosophy and aesthetics, French republican ideals, and Anglo-American educational thought. In 1912 he served as the first Minister of Education of the Republic of China, and from 1916 to 1927 he was chancellor of Peking University (Beida), which under his leadership became the cultural epicenter of the New Culture and May Fourth movements. Cai also founded and presided over the Academia Sinica in 1928 and remained a lifelong advocate of women's rights, universal literacy, and the reconciliation of Chinese and Western thought. He died in Hong Kong in 1940, mourned across a nation at war, and [[john_dewey|John Dewey]] famously remarked that few university presidents in the world had ever defined the turning point of a nation and an era as Cai did for China.
+Cai Yuanpei (蔡元培, Thái Nguyên Bồi) was one of the most influential educators and thinkers of modern China, widely credited with transforming Chinese higher education during the turbulent transition from the Qing dynasty to the Republic of China. Born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, Cai received a rigorous classical education in the Confucian tradition, passing the imperial examination at a young age and earning the prestigious jinshi degree, after which he briefly served as an official in the Qing court. The defeat of China in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) shook his faith in the old order and redirected him toward education as the path to national renewal. He resigned his imperial post, founded patriotic schools, and studied abroad in Japan, Germany (notably at Leipzig under [[wilhelm Wundt|Wilhelm Wundt]]), and France, absorbing German philosophy and aesthetics, French republican ideals, and Anglo-American educational thought. In 1912 he served as the first Minister of Education of the Republic of China, and from 1916 to 1927 he was chancellor of Peking University (Beida), which under his leadership became the cultural epicenter of the New Culture and May Fourth movements. Cai also founded and presided over the Academia Sinica in 1928 and remained a lifelong advocate of women's rights, universal literacy, and the reconciliation of Chinese and Western thought. He died in Hong Kong in 1940, mourned across a nation at war, and [[John Dewey|John Dewey]] famously remarked that few university presidents in the world had ever defined the turning point of a nation and an era as Cai did for China.
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