Li Zehou | |||||||
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Died | 2 November 2021 Boulder, Colorado, U.S. | (aged 91)||||||
Other names | Z.H. Li | ||||||
Alma mater | Hunan First Normal University Peking University | ||||||
Occupation(s) | Historian, writer | ||||||
Years active | 1954–2021 | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 李澤厚 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 李泽厚 | ||||||
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Li Zehou (Chinese: 李泽厚; 13 June 1930 – 2 November 2021) was a Chinese scholar of philosophy and intellectual history.[1][2][3] He is considered an influential modern scholar of Chinese history and culture whose work was central to the period known as the Chinese "New Enlightenment" in the 1980s.[1][4][5]
Li served as a long-term vice president of the Chinese Society for Aesthetics (1980–1998).[6] His works on aesthetics, such as The Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics, triggered an "aesthetics fever (美学热)" in mainland China in the 1980s.[1][7] Soon after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, Li was severely criticized by the Chinese authorities for "poisoning a whole young generation" and his works were forbidden for several years.[8] In 1992, he emigrated to the United States and held visiting or chair professorships at numerous universities, including Colorado College, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, Swarthmore College, and University of Colorado Boulder.[1][9][10]
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