List of Peking University people

This is a list of people associated with Peking University in China. Several notable individuals have been associated with Peking University.

Faculty

• Harold Acton - British scholar and aesthete
• Chen Duxiu 陈独秀 – dean of letters, a leader of China's New Culture Movement, later co-founder of Communist Party of China
• William Empson - British literary scholar
• Fei Xiaotong　费孝通　- researcher of sociology and anthropology; chairman of China Democratic Alliance.
• Gu Hongming 辜鸿铭 – writer, an advocater of traditional Chinese monarchy. Gu preserved his plait even after the overthrow of Qing Dynasty
• He Weifang 贺卫方 – judicial reformist
• Hu Shih 胡适 – philosopher, writer and a leader of China's New Culture Movement
• Jian Bozan 翦伯贊 – historian
• Jiang Menglin 蒋梦麟 – a prominent education reformer in China and former President of Peking University and Zhejiang University
• Li Haopei 李浩培 – jurist, Judge of International Criminal Court
• Liang Shuming 梁漱溟 – modern neo-Confucianist. Liang was most famous for his critique of Marxist class theory, stating that, despite obvious disparities of wealth, Chinese rural society could not be unambiguously classified along class lines. One and the same family (particularly the large patriarchal lineages found in many regions) would commonly have some members among the "haves" and others among the "have-nots". The class struggle advocated......
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