Liu Zongxiang (; 1897–1951) was a Chinese educator who served as president of Hanguang Private Girls' School from 1921 to 1924, and president of Hunan University from 1916 to 1917.

Names

His

courtesy name A courtesy name ( zh, s=字, p=zì, l=character), also known as a style name, is an additional name bestowed upon individuals at adulthood, complementing their given name. This tradition is prevalent in the East Asian cultural sphere, particula ...

was Yinxian (), and his

art name An art name (pseudonym or pen name), also known by its native names ''hào'' (in Mandarin Chinese), ''gō'' (in Japanese), ' (in Korean), and ''tên hiệu'' (in Vietnamese), is a professional name used by artists, poets and writers in the Sinosp ...

was Zhongyuan () and Buguosheng ().

Biography

Liu was born in Ningxiang County,

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

, in 1897, during the

Qing Empire The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...

. He attended Changsha Mingde School in 1904. He was accepted to Imperial University of Peking (now

Peking University Peking University (PKU) is a Public university, public Types of universities and colleges in China#By designated academic emphasis, university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of the Peop ...

). After college, he was assigned to the Qing government as an officer, and later became a professor at

Shanxi University Shanxi University (SXU; ) is a provincial public university in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. It is affiliated with the Province of Shanxi. The university is part of the Double First-Class Construction. History Early 1900 The Shansi Imperial Univer ...

. Liu returned to

Changsha Changsha is the capital of Hunan, China. It is the 15th most populous city in China with a population of 10,513,100, the Central China#Cities with urban area over one million in population, third-most populous city in Central China, and the ...

, Hunan in 1911. He taught at Hunan Zhonglu Normal School and worked as an editor of ''Hunan Education''. He was president of Hunan University between 1916 and 1917. In 1921, he founded Han'guang Private Girls' School and served as its president. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he became a staff member at Hunan Research Institute of Culture and History. He died in Changsha in 1951.

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