Wu Xiangxiang

Wu Xiangxiang was a Chinese historian.

Biography

Wu was born in Baisheng Lane, Changde, Hunan, in 1912. His great-grandfather Wu Qingyu and grandfather Wu Jintang were small merchants. His father Wu Qilin was a member of the Tongmenghui. In 1922, he moved to Changsha, capital of Hunan province, and entered Chuyi School. Four years later, he attended the Mingde High School. In 1937, he graduated from Peking University, where he majored in history.
After university, Wu worked at the Academia Sinica in Changsha. When the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, he worked in the Ninth War Zone Command of the Kuomintang. At that time, he wrote The Third Changsha Battle and other articles. After war, he became an editor of Palace Museum and associate professor of Lanzhou University.
After the government of the Republic of China moved to Taiwan, Wu successively worked as a professor of the Department of History of National Taiwan University, chairman of the Department of History of Nanyang University in Singapore, and professor of the Institute of History of the Chinese Culture University. His students included Li Yongchi and Li Ao.
In November 1962, Wu was expelled from the Kuomintang. In 1975, he settled down in the United States. In 1996, he returned to mainland China to attend the International Academic Conference on Sun Yat-sen's 130th Birthday. He died in Illinois, on September 21, 2007, aged 95.