Zhang Kaiyuan

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.

Zhang Kaiyuan
章开沅
President of Central China Normal University
In office December 1983 – March 1991
Preceded by	Liu Ruozeng
Succeeded by	Wang Qingsheng
Personal details
Born	(1926-07-08)July 8, 1926 Wanzhi District, Wuhu, Anhui, China
Died	May 28, 2021(2021-05-28) (aged 94) Wuhan, Hubei, China
Alma mater	University of Nanking (defunct in 1952) Zhongyuan University
Occupation	Historian, educator
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Modern History of China
Institutions	Central China Normal University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	章开沅
Traditional Chinese	章開沅
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhāng Kāiyuán

Zhang Kaiyuan (Chinese: 章开沅; July 8, 1926 – May 28, 2021) was a Chinese historian and educator.

Biography

Born in Wuhu, Anhui Province, Zhang Kaiyuan was admitted by the History Department of Nanjing University in October 1946, and graduated there. In December 1948, Zhang went to the Central Plains Liberated Areas in Central China University of Political Research as a graduate student. In July 1949 he went to Wuhan together with the school, and became an assistant professor in the Department of History, College of Education faculty, and in September 1951 into the Huazhong University (from August 1985 - March 1991 it was the Central China Normal University, and Huazhong Normal University). He has been successively lecturer, associate professor, professor, and finally president then former president (of Huazhong Normal University). He was also President of the Research Center for the History of Chinese Christian Colleges and Universities.

Zhang Kaiyuan held Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Augustana College, Soka University and Kansai University.

Publications in English

• Zhang, Kaiyuan. Eyewitnesses to Massacre: American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 459 libraries
• Zhang, Kaiyuan. Distanciation and Return Analysis on Traditional Culture and Modernization of China. Singapore: Silkroad Press, 2011.