Zhou Hexuan (March 17, 1898 - August 8, 2015), courtesy name Mingcheng, was born in Hebei, grew up in Southeast Asia, and traveled in the West.

Famous modern and contemporary Chinese writers, historians, musicians, political commentators, calligraphers, orators, educators, diplomats, philanthropists, inventors, anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, patriotic journalists, Red Capitalist. He is the author of the novel "Black Soil", "The Goddess", the novella "Human City", the poem "Praise", the historical monograph "The Rise of the Great Powers", "Guns, Germs and Steel" and other works.

【Basic Information】

Chinese name: Zhou Hexuan

English name: charles·chou

Nationality: Chinese

Nationality: Han

Place of birth: Hebei

Date of birth: 1898

Date of death: 2015

Occupation: Writer, historian

Known as: Wizard of the Far East,

【Character Life】

early life

Zhou Hexuan was born in a rural gentry family in Hebei on March 17, 1898.

In 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China and the Zhou family was destroyed in the war. Zhou Hexuan followed his parents to Malaya to join his distant uncle.

In 1906, the Malayan natives rioted, and Zhou Hexuan's parents and uncle died unexpectedly.

From 1906 to 1908, the young Zhou Hexuan could only survive by begging and stealing.

In 1908, Zhou Hexuan was taken in by an American missionary and went to the United States. After the missionary's death, Zhou Hexuan wandered around the United States, often pretending to be an Asian international student and sneaking into American universities to audit studies.

In 1918, 20-year-old Zhou Hexuan traveled to Europe, visited more than ten European countries, and mastered many languages.

In 1925, Zhou Hexuan took a ship to Japan and returned to China six months later.

The situation of the Republic of China

In 1926, Zhou Hexuan settled in Tianjin.

In April, Zhou Hexuan serialized "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in the "New Tianjin Evening News" under the pen name "Jin Yong", creating a precedent for modern martial arts. The sequels include "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slayer", both of which are known as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". "The Condor Trilogy". In the Beijing and Tianjin areas, everyone rushed to circulate it, and for a time, "Luoyang paper was expensive". Because the serialization speed was too slow, the warlord Chu Yupu placed Zhou Hexuan under house arrest, urged him to update by force, and admired his talent, so he appointed Zhou Hexuan as his foreign language secretary. .

In May, Zhou Hexuan began to write the historical masterpiece "The Rise of the Great Powers", which was serialized in "Zi Lin Xi Bao" and "Beijing-Tianjin Times", creating "modern historiography" and known as "the founder of modern historiography", which deeply influenced The development of international historical research.

In June, Zhou Hexuan, with the support of Zhang Xueliang, invited Hu Zhengzhi and Zhang Jiluan to re-run Ta Kung Pao, and proposed the eight-character newspaper policy of "no party, no selling, no selfishness, no blindness".

In July, Zhou Hexuan joined forces with Zhang Xueliang and Feng Yong to establish the "China Hope Education Foundation". Over the past few decades, more than 600 "Hope Primary Schools" have been built in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Sichuan, Hong Kong and other places, serving as a foundation for basic education in China. Development has contributed tremendously. At the end of the same month, Zhou Hexuan gave a speech "I Have a Dream" on a train, which shocked the country and inspired generations of passionate young people to work hard for the prosperity of the country.

In September, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated by the reactionary warlord Chu Yufeng and was shot and injured, but survived.

In October, Zhou Hexuan's literary masterpiece "The Goddess" was serialized in "Monthly News", causing a sensation in the world's literary world. "The Goddess", "The Dog Officer" and "The Story of the Dog Officer" are collectively known as the "Magic Trilogy", creating a "magic reality" "ism" trend, known as "the pinnacle of the May Fourth New Literature Issue", "the final work of the New Literature Movement", and "the beginning of the world's magical realism wave", will have a profound impact on Eastern and Western traditional literature in the next few decades. .

In November, Zhang Zuolin sent troops to surround Peking University, and professors resigned one after another and went south. Peking University was extremely short of qualified teachers and found it difficult to continue. Zhou Hexuan was appointed as the president of Peking University at the critical moment. He used his personal savings to pay faculty and staff salaries, and joined forces with professors from Peking University and Tsinghua University to form "

China University Textbook Compilation Group" has compiled a series of science and engineering textbooks that are in line with China's actual conditions.

In February 1927, Zhou Hexuan responded to the vigorous pro-women movement and improved women's underwear. After decades of development, "Mei Kou" underwear has become an internationally renowned brand, occupying the Eastern and Western markets with the "Victoria's Secret" series.

In May of that year, there was a major disaster in Shandong. Zhou Hexuan founded the charity organization "Ji Min Hui" in Tianjin and went to the disaster areas to carry out disaster relief activities. Mr. Zhou Hexuan is a famous philanthropist in modern and contemporary my country. He has been providing relief and relief to the victims for decades. He was poor and donated countless assets to the country. He was known as "Zhou Bodhisattva", "Zhou Immortal" and "Good Man Zhou". In the 1940s, there was a "Zhou Hexuan Shrine" in Sichuan.

In March 1928, the masterpiece of historical anthropology "Guns, Germs and Steel" was published. It was later selected as a textbook by hundreds of universities around the world. Zhou Hexuan was hailed as the "founder of historical anthropology". French historian Lucien Feiffer

Er believes that Zhou Hexuan is the leader of the "Annals School". He bluntly stated in the "Annals" magazine: "The Rise of the Great Powers and Guns, Germs and Steel undoubtedly lead the trend of world historical research, just like the waves in the vast ocean.

A beacon, guiding the direction of progress in the world of history. Mr. Zhou Hexuan is undoubtedly the greatest historian, anthropologist and sociologist in the world today, and his works are irreplaceable and groundbreaking."

In April, he founded the China Radio Station. Zhou Hexuan personally anchored "Seven O'clock Gossip", praising and criticizing current affairs and criticizing celebrities. People at the time called it "electronic essays", creating the first TV and radio interview program in my country.

In May, Zhou Hexuan moved into Tianjin Sanletang.

In June, "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" was published. In the same month, Dai Jitao published "On Japan". The two were collectively known as "Southern Dai and Northern Zhou".

In September, Zhou Hexuan was invited by Luo Jialun to give a lecture on "History of Human Civilization" in Tsinghua University. This book was later jointly published with the British historian Toynbee, namely "Historical Research", which eliminated the Western centralism and the single historical linear development view.

It has a lofty status in Eastern and Western historical and philosophical works.

In April 1929, Zhou Hexuan was invited to serve as the deputy director of the Tianjin Martial Arts Museum. In June, Zhou Hexuan and Lu Xun met by chance in Tianjin, and they went to Peking together and had a pleasant conversation.

In October, Zhou Hexuan joined the "Five Continents Hongmen" and the "Zhi Gong Party" and served as the "Hongmen New Fortune". In the same month, "The Goddess" won the French Goncourt Literary Award, and Zhou Hexuan became the first Asian to win this award.

In November, Zhou Hexuan funded the construction of the "Cemetery of Chinese Workers who Aided France in World War I", which aroused French society's attention to the Chinese workers who aided France. The French media called the Chinese workers who aided France "sons of heaven."

In January 1930, Zhou Hexuan met with Einstein and proposed a famous experiment in the field of quantum physics called Zhou Hexuan's cat.

In February, "Titanic" was published in the United States and became a hit across the United States. It was adapted into movies twice, both of which won the global box office championship of the year.

In March, Zhou Hexuan founded the Study Abroad Foundation. In the past 20 years, it has funded more than 600 students to study in Europe and the United States, including "Tong Dizhou, the father of Chinese cloning."

In April, the Pulitzer Prize became vacant for the first time because two final judges objected to the award for "Guns, Germs, and Steel."

In March 1930, "General History of the World" was published, redefining world history. The book was designated as a textbook by hundreds of universities at home and abroad, and the "global view of history" spread widely and had a profound impact on international political relations in later generations.

In September 1931, Zhou Hexuan teamed up with Peking University teachers and students to develop a method of making home-made hand grenades. The set of manufacturing equipment was named the "Seven-Man Back". From 1931 to 1945, during the entire Anti-Japanese War, the "Seven-Man Back" was active in many areas.

The frontal battlefields and battlefields behind enemy lines caused heavy casualties to the Japanese invaders. In October, Zhou Hexuan began to publish a large number of comments on international and domestic current affairs. These articles were included in the "Sanletang Collected Works", which is an important document for studying the history before and after World War II.

In May 1932, Zhou Hexuan was invited to participate in the International Non-War Conference and initiated the establishment of the "International Anti-Fascist Alliance", and later founded the "African War" magazine in China. By the end of World War II, the alliance had developed more than 200,000 official members

In August, Zhou Hexuan founded "Cognitive Linguistics" and based it on the formation of the "London School", "Paris School" and "New York School" in linguistics. In the same month, he participated in the discovery of the medical value of sulfa and in 1939

He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2011. In September, "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" was serialized in the British magazine "Scientific School" and influenced the creation of science fiction literature from generation to generation.

In July 1933, "Black Soil" was serialized in the magazine "Fei Gong". The book is a magnificent Northeast epic, showing the social changes of the Northeast for more than half a century in modern times, and is a monument in the history of Chinese literature.

In 1934, the "silver crisis" broke out in China. Zhou Hexuan traveled to the UK and lobbied in the UK, which greatly helped the National Government in its currency reform. During this period, he founded a private flying club in the United States and trained a large number of aviation personnel for the Anti-Japanese War.

In April 1935, he invested in the construction of my country's first bridge across the Yangtze River, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. In May, he co-founded "Li Bao" with Zhang Henshui and Cheng Shewo.

In October, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated in London. The assailant was a Japanese student. A year later, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated again, and the Japanese government wanted to get rid of him.

In 1936, Zhou Hexuan and Wang Zhengting led Chinese athletes to compete in the Berlin Olympics and achieved good results of 6 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes. The athletes broke world records many times. In July of the same year, Zhou Hexuan moved to Chongqing and spent huge sums of money to help victims of the disaster in central Sichuan. In the same year, Zhou Hexuan won the

The Nobel Prize in Literature.

Anti-Japanese War Years

At a time of national crisis, Zhou Hexuan stepped forward and went to the United States and the United Kingdom as envoys to help the National Government negotiate a "tung oil loan" and open the blocked Yunnan-Burma Highway ahead of schedule. He also donated nearly a hundred aircraft at a time and was awarded the "Tung Oil Loan".

"Awakening of Lions and Honored Swords", and served as Vice Chairman of the China Aviation Commission.

From 1936 to 1937, Zhou Hexuan vigorously built factories and mines to provide many materials and commodities for the rear area. Among them, the pharmaceutical factory built in Hechuan County provided a large amount of medicines to the military and civilians every year and contributed greatly to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

In 1938, Zhou Hexuan collected and sorted out a large amount of information and jointly compiled "The Massacre of Nanjing" with Rabe. After the end of World War II, these materials were submitted to the Tokyo International Tribunal as important evidence in the trial of Japanese war criminals.

In 1939, when the Southwest Associated University faced many difficulties, Zhou Hexuan donated a large amount of materials and invented a scientific method of raising chickens. This method was quickly spread across the country and even the world, and has been used by small and medium-sized chicken farms until the 21st century.

In 1941, Zhou Hexuan went to Dunhuang in person to prevent Zhang Daqian from destroying the murals and saved a large number of mural treasures for our country.

In 1942, "The Little Prince" was published and became a global bestseller, becoming the world's best-selling literary work.

In 1943, Zhou Hexuan wrote the novella "Human Market". He was put under house arrest for half a year because he reflected the tragic situation of the disaster victims in Henan and exposed the dark rule of the Kuomintang. While under house arrest, Zhou Hexuan published the historical monograph "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli", which became the A classic work in the study of Ming history. In the same year, Zhou Hexuan and Joseph Needham co-founded the "Sino-British Scientific Cooperation Center", which promoted the connection between China and the world's academic circles during the war and provided a large amount of documents and scientific equipment to the Chinese academic community.

Hong Kong Times

In 1945, Zhou Hexuan purchased a villa on the top of the mountain in Hong Kong and settled here with his family the following year. Together with his father-in-law Zhang Mouzhi, he purchased land and built factories in Hong Kong, laying a solid industrial and commercial foundation.

In 1946, Zhou Hexuan secretly donated mainland assets to our party, and took advantage of the split of the Japanese consortium to invest in dozens of Japanese companies.

In 1947, Zhou Hexuan was awarded the title of Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts and the Order of the Garter awarded by King George VI of the United Kingdom.

In the 1950s, the Korean War broke out and the British Hong Kong government imposed an embargo on the mainland. Zhou Hexuan secretly smuggled transportation supplies for New China for 26 years and was praised by the central leadership as a "close comrade of the Communist Party."

In 1954, the film library of Hong Kong Wing Wah Film Company caught fire and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Zhou Hexuan invested 1 million yuan to purchase 90% of the shares, and personally wrote the script "A Chinese Ghost Story". The film broke the local box office record for Hong Kong films. Zhou Hexuan has since entered the film and television industry. industry, and founded Hong Kong Radio Television Station in the 1970s.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a crisis broke out in the American film industry. Zhou Hexuan bought United Artists Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures one after another and combined them into "MGM-United Artists Pictures", which was managed by Vivien Leigh.

In the 1980s, Zhou Hexuan founded the "Ultimate Fighting Championship" (ufc), which has been popular all over the world for more than thirty years and is known as the "Father of Mixed Martial Arts".

In 1981, Zhou Hexuan was invited to return to mainland China to invest in finance, real estate, manufacturing, tourism, shipping, the Internet and many other fields.

take a bow

At ten o'clock in the evening on August 8, 2015, Zhou Hexuan passed away peacefully at the age of 117.

[Character anecdotes]

About music

Zhou Hexuan is recognized as the "Father of Rock and Roll". He composed the world's first rock song during World War II. He also composed "On the Songhua River", "Swan Geese", "The Great Wall Never Arrives", and "My Motherland". , "My Heart Will Go On" and other popular and excellent songs.

About opera

Zhou Hexuan has a profound research on Peking Opera and Cantonese Opera, and once co-composed the classic Peking Opera piece "Mrs. Flower Stam" with Li Shoumin.

About poetry

Zhou Hexuan is the originator of Chinese modern poetry. His representative works include "A Generation", "Answer", "I Love This Land", "Praise" and other classic chapters.

About inventions
To be continued...