Ren Kainan

Ren Kainan
任凯南
President of Hunan University
In office June 1927 – July 1929
Preceded by	Lei Zhuhuan
Succeeded by	Hu Yuantan
Personal details
Born	August 1884 Xiangyin County, Hunan, Qing Empire
Died	1949 (aged 64–65) Changsha, Hunan, Republic of China
Nationality	Chinese
Political party	Tongmenghui Kuomintang
Alma mater	University of London Waseda University
Occupation	Politician, educator

Ren Kainan (simplified Chinese: 任凯南; traditional Chinese: 任凱南; pinyin: Rèn Kaĭnán; August 1884-July 1949) was a Chinese educator who served as President of Hunan University from June 1927 to July 1929.^[1]

Biography

Ren was born in Xiangyin County, Hunan, during the Qing Empire. He attended Hunan Industrial High School (now Hunan University). After graduation, he went to studied at Waseda University, in Shinjuku of Tokyo, Japan. When he studied at Japan, he got acquainted with Huang Xing, and joined the Tongmenghui. He returned to China in 1911, after the Xinhai Revolution, he established the Republic of China Daily (Chinese: 《民国日报》) in French concession in Hankou, Hubei. The Beiyang government closed down the newspaper when its articles againsted Yuan Shikai's restoration of monarchy. He received his Doctor of Economics from the University of London in 1921.^[2][3]

He returned to China in 1922 and that year became President of Hunan Business School. He also founded Changsha Dalu School (Chinese: 长沙大麓中学) and served as Chief-Librarian of Hunan Provincial Library. In 1926, he became a professor at Hunan University, he became its President in June 1927, and held that office until July 1929. In August 1927, he was recruited by National Wuhan University (now Wuhan University) as a professor, and became its Director of Department of Economics in October 1932. In July 1937, he served as provost of Hunan University and concurrently served as board chairman of Changsha Dalu School. In 1940, he served as President of Changsha Dalu School. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, he resigned.

In July 1949, he died of stroke in Changsha, Hunan.

References

1. "Ren Kainan". Hunan Library (in Chinese). 2015.
2. "Ren Kainan". Yueyang government (in Chinese). February 2011.
3. 纪念任凯南诞辰130周年 一个与马寅初齐名的汨罗籍经济学家. Miluo News (in Chinese). 2014-10-20.

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