Ke Shaobin

A modern Chinese scholar. Famous for being the author of the New Yuan History. His pen name was Fengsun. He was from Jiao County, Shandong Province. He was a scholar of the Qing Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, he served as the Imperial Superintendent, the Right Councilor of the Faculty, and the Director of the University of the Capital, and was already well known as a scholar. After the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912, he did not take up a government position, but instead became a lecturer and taught Puyi (the former Xuantong Emperor). At the same time, in order to make up for the shortcomings of the Yuan History, he incorporated the work of various scholars and created a new New Yuan History. In 1919, the then Grand President Xu Shichang ordered that it be included in the official histories, and the New Yuan History has since been counted as one of the "25 histories," which are official histories. In his later years, he served as chairman of the General Committee for Oriental Cultural Projects and president of the Qing History Museum.

[Kurahashi Masanao March 18, 2016]

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中国、近代の学者。『新元史』の撰者(せんじゃ)として有名。字(あざな)は鳳孫(ほうそん)。山東(さんとう／シャントン)省膠(こう)県の人。清(しん)の進士。清では国子監司業、学部右参議、京師大学堂総監督などを歴任、すでに学者として名が知られていた。1912年中華民国成立後、官途にはつかず、侍講となって溥儀(ふぎ／プーイー)（もとの宣統帝）の教育にあたった。そのかたわら『元史』の欠点を補うため、諸家の業績を取り入れ、新たに『新元史』をつくった。1919年、時の大総統徐世昌(じょせいしょう／シュイシーチャン)がこれを正史中に入れることを命じ、以後『新元史』は正史である「二十五史」の一つに数えられることになった。晩年、東方文化事業総委員会委員長や清史館総裁などを務めた。

［倉橋正直　2016年3月18日］

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