Yuan Weishi

Yuan Weishi
Born	(1931-12-15) December 15, 1931 Xingning, Guangdong, China
Residence	Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Citizenship	Chinese
Fields	History, philosophy
Institutions	Zhongshan University
Alma mater	Zhongshan University, Fudan University

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yuan (surname).

Yuan Weishi (simplified Chinese: 袁伟时; traditional Chinese: 袁偉時; pinyin: Yuán Wěishí; born December 15, 1931) is a Chinese historian and philosopher.

Biography

Yuan was born in Xingning, Guangdong. He was admitted to Zhongshan University Department of Economics in 1950, and then went to a master program in political economy at Fudan University. He worked as a faculty member at Zhongshan University Department of Philosophy.

In the January 2006 issue of Bingdian, Yuan published an essay titled Modernisation and History Textbooks, criticizing the official theme of government issued middle schools history textbooks,claiming that they contain numbers of distortions of the historical accounts (see for example in the article about the Boxer Rebellion). Professor Yuan said:"The public, especially the students, have the right to find out the true historical facts."