- Wang Dazhi
Wang Dazhi (Chinese: 汪达之;
Pinyin : Wāng Dázhī;April 21 ,1903 [ [http://www.jyb.cn/gb/2003/07/19/zy/3-zb/4.htm 敢于创新的人民教育家] , "China Education News", July 19, 2003, Section 3. Another source indicates that Wang was born on May 6, 1902, see [http://www.hsyxzx.com/wsh_502.htm 新安旅团的创建者、人民教育家汪达之] . ] --March 27 ,1980 [See [http://www.hsyxzx.com/wsh_502.htm 新安旅团的创建者、人民教育家汪达之] and Wang Ruyi, [http://www.czzx.gov.cn/Article/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=1007 My Father, Wang Dazhi] , "Huaian News" (淮安报), October 26, 1985. Other sources indicate that Wang died on Mach 7, 1980, see, e.g., [http://xq80.njxzc.edu.cn/wangdz.asp Wang Dazhi] , Nanjing Xiaozhuang College website. ] ) was a Chineseeducator .Biography
Wang Dazhi was born in
Yi County ,Anhui in 1903. He was appointed byTao Xingzhi (陶行知) to be the president of Xin'an School [ [http://www.jyb.cn/gb/2003/07/19/zy/3-zb/4.htm 敢于创新的人民教育家] , "China Education News", July 19, 2003, Section 3.] from 1928 to 1935.He established Xin'an Lvxing Tuan (新安旅行团), a group of
primary school students, to travel all around China for education from 1935 to 1949. [ [http://xq80.njxzc.edu.cn/wangdz.asp Biography of Wang Dazhi] , Nanjing Xiaozhuang College website. ]After the
People's Republic of China was founded, Wang had been the President ofNanjing Xiaozhuang Normal College, Deputy Director of Chinese Character Reform Committee (中国文字改革委员会), and Party Secretary of Guangdong College of Nationalities (广东民族学院).Wang died in
Beijing in March 1980.Notes
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