Jiang Qian

In this Chinese name, the family name is Jiang.

Jiang Qian (Chinese: 江謙; 1876–1942), courtesy name Yiyuan (易園), art name Yangfu (陽復), was an influential Chinese scholar and educator.^[1]

Jiang Qian

Biography

In his early years, Jiang studied at the Ziyang Academy in Huizhou, Anhui, and Wenzheng Academy in Nanjing.^[2] In 1902, he helped Zhang Jian to found Tongzhou Normal School, the first Chinese normal school, and then became the school's president.^[3] In 1914, he was appointed the president of Nanking Higher Normal School, on the site of former Liangjiang Higher Normal School.^[4] Nanking Higher Normal School later turned to be National Southeastern University and renamed National Central University and Nanjing University.^[3] In 1918, when taken ill, he nominated the provost Kuo Ping-Wen (郭秉文) to be the acting president.^[4] A year later in 1919, he quit the post of school president.^[3]