Meng Xiancheng has extensive knowledge of Chinese and foreign history, especially foreign languages, history, philosophy and education. Professor of Chinese Department, Foreign Languages Department and Education Department, Dean of College of Arts. 1942 was elected as one of the first 29 professors appointed by the national government. He is the only one in the education discipline.
When Meng Xiancheng was studying at St. John's University, British President Francis Liszt Hawkes Porter admired him very much. 1925 during the "Wuzhou" tragedy, Chinese people were enthusiastic about patriotism and anti-imperialism. As the head of the Chinese Department, he led patriotic teachers and students to fight against the school's repression of progressive students, and together with Professor Qian Jibo (the father of the famous scholar Qian Zhongshu), he led progressive teachers and students to leave school and founded Guanghua University. He declared that he would "leave St. John's University forever" and vowed that he would "never enter any foreign missionary school again".
Meng Xian Cheng Lin San Zhejiang University Teaching: 1929- 1933,1938-194/kloc-0,1946-195/kloc-. When I was in Yishan, I was the director of education. When I was in Longquan branch, I was the director of the academic affairs office and an English professor.
At the beginning of liberation, Zhejiang Normal University was abolished, the Department of Education was merged into the College of Liberal Arts, and Meng Xiancheng was the dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He served for two years until he was transferred to Shanghai in July.
From 65438 to 0950, Mr. Ma Yinchu, president of Zhejiang University, often asked the leading comrades of the provincial party committee to give political study reports to the teachers and students of the whole school. On campus, two progressive professors outside the Party were invited to talk about the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism. One is Professor Chen Lesu (an expert in Song history) and the other is Professor Meng Xiancheng. Meng Xiancheng is talking about the history of social development.
After Meng Xiancheng was transferred to Shanghai, he lived in a bungalow near the trade union of East China Normal University. Most people wear robes and cloth shoes on weekdays. When they went to work in Shanghai, they wore Chinese tunic suits.
1957' s "anti-rightist" and 1966' s "cultural revolution" were the days when upright China intellectuals were put into purgatory. The age of forcing the altar. Unfortunately, Meng Xiancheng was affected in both disasters. His grandson, Meng Zi, wrote in the History of the Vicissitudes of North and South Meng: "In politics, Xian Cheng is extremely cautious. 1957, the professors of China Normal University jointly demanded "President Meng's due authority", which was a right-wing speech demanding inner-party power at that time. He was frightened, his retina fell off, and he was silent from then on, never asking about school again. " "At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, he automatically stopped paying wages, took the bus himself, went to work from the urban area to China Normal University, and pulled weeds in front of the office building." 1June, 967, he saw posters in the auditorium, saying that he was "holding high the bourgeois black flag". "After you come back, ... he is always unhappy. One day after dinner, my wife went to bed first, and when she woke up, she found him still sitting on the balcony, leaning back on the cane chair, unconscious. He never woke up because of a stroke. " This day is1July 967 19.
1978165438+1On October 27th, the Party Committee of East China Normal University of China made a conclusion to Meng Xiancheng, saying: persecuted by Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, Meng Xiancheng "suffered from it despite his old age and illness, and suffered from property seizure, forced labor and military training, which made Meng Xiancheng. On 1938.
On May 15, 2006, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, China Higher Education Society issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Promoting the Older Generation of Educators in China, which was included in the first batch of presidents of *** 18 universities, and Meng Xiancheng was among them. Wu (National People's Congress), Li Da (Wu Da), Cheng (Northeast Normal University, Shanda University, National People's Congress), (Jiaotong University), He Lvting (Shanghai Conservatory of Music), (Nanda), (Tsinghua), Chen Yuan (Beijing Normal University), Chen Wangdao (Fudan University), Ma Yinchu, Zhou Peiyuan (Peking University), and Su.