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2 unusual facts about Tan Qixiang


Tan Qixiang

According to historian Ge Jianxiong, Tan's former student, Tan was under strong political pressure to make the historical Tibet appear smaller, but he insisted on being faithful to history, and his version was eventually approved by China's then reformist leader Hu Yaobang.

Wang Zhongshu

After the end of World War II, Wang was accepted by several top Chinese universities in 1946, and chose to enter Zhejiang University in his home province, where he studied under the historian Tan Qixiang and excelled in the subjects of Chinese history and the Japanese language.



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