1918165438+10 On October 7th, Zhang Zhilian was born in a scholarly family in Hankou, Hubei Province, and his father was Zhang Shouyong, the founder of Guanghua University. Zhang Zhilian has been reading poetry books at home since he was a child. He is well-informed and strong. 1935 was admitted to the department of western languages in yenching university, Beiping, and transferred to Guanghua University two years later, where he studied under Hugh Ho Chang, a professor of English literature, and Lv Simian and Shuye Tong, China historians. 194 1 year, he re-entered the yenching university Research Institute to study history, studied the history of China under the guidance of famous teachers Zhang Ertian and Nie Chongqi, and published papers such as A Brief History of Zi, from which his academic career began. 1946, Zhang Zhilian went to Yale university in the United States to study history, 1947, crossed the Atlantic to Oxford university in England and went to France to attend international seminars, during which he extensively dabbled in Chinese and foreign literature, history and academic thoughts. After returning to China, he first taught at Guanghua University, 195 1 went to yenching university History Department to teach world history, and 1952 was transferred to Peking University as a professor of history department. He was an academic member of the Institute of World History of China Academy of Social Sciences, director of the China Historical Society, president of the French History Research Association of China, president of the Beijing Foreign Studies Association, and director of the European Research Center of Peking University until 65438.