Aisiqi

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Àisīqí (艾思奇)^[1] is the penname of Li Sheng-Hsuen (李生萱, 1910–1966), a Yunnan Mongol Chinese philosopher and author. He was born in Yunnan, later traveling to Hong Kong, where he studied English and French at a Protestant school and was exposed to Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People and Marxism. He read a great deal of Marxism, including "Communist Manifesto", in Japanese translation. This reading is the root of Ai’s most important works Historical Materialism and Dialectical Materialism (歷史唯物主義與辯証唯物主義) and Philosophy for the Masses (大眾哲學)(1948).

In the small tourist town of Heshun near in Tengchong County, western Yunnan Province, China, there is a small museum dedicated to Aisiqi. It is based in his former house where he lived for two years. It contains pictures, personal items and a statue of him in the yard of the compound.

Secondary literature

• Joshua A. Fogel, "Aisiqi, Establishment Intellectual by Joshua A. Fogel", in Merle Goldman, Timothy Cheek, and Carol Lee Hamrin, eds., China's Intellectuals and the State: In Search of a New Relationship (Harvard University Asia Center, 1987).
• Китайская философия. Энциклопедический словарь. М., 1994 — С.12-13. ISBN 5-244-00757-2

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