Jian Bozan
Jian Bozan (; April 14, 1898 – December 18, 1968) was a Chinese scholar and Marxist historian of
Uyghur descent. Born in
Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, Jian became an early supporter of the
Chinese Communist Party. From 1952 to his death, he was Vice President of
Peking University. Like many authoritative academic figures of his generation, he was persecuted during the
Cultural Revolution over a perceived divergence between his own ideas and that of dominant
Maoist orthodoxy of the time. Unable to bear torture, Jian committed suicide in 1968.
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