Gu Hongming
Gu Hongming was a Chinese scholar born in British Malaya man of letters. He also used the pen name Amoy Ku.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Penang
- Educated at
- University of Edinburgh
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Trending topics shown first"he honour of a woman,— a true woman in China, is not only to love and be true to her husband, but to live absolutely, selflessly for him, In fact, this Religion of Selflessness is the religion of the …"
"The serene and blessed mood which enables us to see into the life of things: that is imaginative reason, that is the Spirit of the Chinese People."
"But people will say to me, "why ask selflessness and sacrifice only from the woman? What about the man?" To this, I answer, does not the man, the husband, who toils and moils to support his family, an…"
"poken or colloquial Chinese is in fact the language of a child. Now as a proof of this, we all know how easily European children learn colloquial or spoken Chinese, while learned philogues and sinolog…"
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Timeline
1857
Born
Birth1928
Died
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