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'''Zhang Jingsheng''' (1888–1970) was a Chinese intellectual, author, and [[sexologist]]. He is remembered as one of the first academics in Chinese history to openly discuss sex. He is known as China’s "Dr Sex."<ref name="Historicising Gender and Sexuality" />
==Family and early life==
Zhang Jingsheng was born into a poor family in [[Raoping County]], Guangdong Province in 1888.<ref name="When I was Born" />
From 1912 to 1920 he studied in France earning a bachelors degree in liberal arts and a PhD in Philosophy from the [[University of Lyon]].<ref name="Historicising Gender and Sexuality">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Career==
After returning to China from France he taught at the [[Shantou Jinshan Middle School]] in Guangdong. In 1921 he was offered a teaching position at [[Peking University]] by [[Cai Yuanpei]] which put him at the very heart of the [[May Fourth movement]].<ref name="Historicising Gender and Sexuality" />
Much of his work, both academic and professional, was regarded as tawdry or profane by Chinese conservatives and these forces were particularly powerful in Beijing. Zhang Jingsheng came under such fierce personal and professional attack that he attempted suicide by poison in 1932.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Over the course of his career he published books on science, medicine, philosophy, agronomy, logic, sociology, and literature. Zhang Jingsheng’s translation of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]’s [[Confessions (Rousseau)|Confessions]] was one of the the most popular translations of its time in China.<ref name="When I was Born">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Published works==
* ''Sexual history'' (1926)
==Biographies==
* ''Sex, Eugenics, Aesthetics, Utopia in the Life and Work of Zhang Jingsheng (1888-1970)'' by Leon Antonio Rocha, 2010.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==References==
[[Category:University of Lyon alumni]]
[[Category:Chinese sexologists]]
==Family and early life==
Zhang Jingsheng was born into a poor family in [[Raoping County]], Guangdong Province in 1888.<ref name="When I was Born" />
From 1912 to 1920 he studied in France earning a bachelors degree in liberal arts and a PhD in Philosophy from the [[University of Lyon]].<ref name="Historicising Gender and Sexuality">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Career==
After returning to China from France he taught at the [[Shantou Jinshan Middle School]] in Guangdong. In 1921 he was offered a teaching position at [[Peking University]] by [[Cai Yuanpei]] which put him at the very heart of the [[May Fourth movement]].<ref name="Historicising Gender and Sexuality" />
Much of his work, both academic and professional, was regarded as tawdry or profane by Chinese conservatives and these forces were particularly powerful in Beijing. Zhang Jingsheng came under such fierce personal and professional attack that he attempted suicide by poison in 1932.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Over the course of his career he published books on science, medicine, philosophy, agronomy, logic, sociology, and literature. Zhang Jingsheng’s translation of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]’s [[Confessions (Rousseau)|Confessions]] was one of the the most popular translations of its time in China.<ref name="When I was Born">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Published works==
* ''Sexual history'' (1926)
==Biographies==
* ''Sex, Eugenics, Aesthetics, Utopia in the Life and Work of Zhang Jingsheng (1888-1970)'' by Leon Antonio Rocha, 2010.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==References==
[[Category:University of Lyon alumni]]
[[Category:Chinese sexologists]]
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