Zhang Shizhao - Zhang Shizhao

Chinese politician and scholar. Born in Changsha, Hunan Province. His pen name was Xingyan. In the late Qing Dynasty, he advocated anti-Manchu revolution in Su Bao and other publications, and formed the Huaxing Society with Huang Xing and others. He was persecuted and studied in Japan and the UK. After the Xinhai Revolution, he returned to China and took an anti-Yuan Shikai stance in Jiayin Magazine and other publications, but he parted ways with the revolutionaries and joined the political science camp. In 1924, he became Attorney General and Minister of Education in the Duan Qirui government, but resigned in the wake of the Female Teachers' University Incident. In 1949, he became the national government representative at the Kuomintang-Communist Peace Talks, but also attended the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. After the founding of the People's Republic of China (1949), he served as a member of the People's Congress and as the Hunan Provincial Representative to the National People's Congress. He died in Hong Kong in 1973. He is well known as a writer who follows the Tojo school of writing. His works include "Ryubun Shiyo."

[Shuzo Agawa]

"Takada Jun, Zhang Binglin, Zhang Shizhao, and Lu Xun: Death and Life in the Xinhai Era" (1974, Ryukei Shosha)

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中国の政治家、学者。湖南(こなん)省長沙(ちょうさ)の人。字は行厳。清(しん)末『蘇報(そほう)』などで排満革命論を鼓吹、黄興(こうこう)らと華興会を結成。弾圧され日本、イギリスに留学。辛亥(しんがい)革命後帰国し『甲寅(こういん)雑誌』などで反袁世凱(えんせいがい)の論陣を張るが、革命派とはたもとを分かち政学系に属す。1924年段祺瑞(だんきずい)政権の司法総長兼教育総長、女師大事件で辞職。1949年国共和平会談の国府代表となるが、政治協商会議に出席。新中国成立（1949）後、同議員、全国人民代表大会湖南省代表などを務める。1973年香港(ホンコン)で客死。桐城派の流れをくむ文章家として著名。著書には『柳文指要』など。

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『高田淳著『章炳麟・章士釗・魯迅――辛亥の死と生と』（1974・龍渓書舎）』

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