翦伯赞(1898—1968),我国著名的马克思主义历史学家。湖南省桃源县人。维吾尔族。早在1926年,他就参加革命活动,投身北伐战争。大革命失败后,他开始运用马克思主义研究中国社会的历史发展,研究中国的社会性质和革命性质。九·一八事变后,特别在抗日战争爆发后,他写了大量著作,宣传党的坚持抗战、团结和进步的方针,揭露和批判国民党反动派的投降阴谋和分裂倒退活动。1937年5月加入中国共产党。1940年起,即长期在周恩来同志的直接领导下,从事统一战线和理论宣传工作,并以极大的努力对中国历史进行了系统的研究,先后完成了《中国史纲》第一、二卷和《中国史论集》等上百万字的著作。建国以后,担任北京大学历史系教授、系主任,后任北大副校长,并主编《光明日报》《史学》专刊。他还协同郭沫若、范文澜等同志筹建了中国史学会,是我国运用历史唯物主义科学地研究中国历史的老一辈史学家之 翦 Bozan (1898-1968), China’s famous Marxist historian. Taoyuan County in Hunan Province. Uighur. As early as 1926, he participated in the revolutionary activities, join the Northern Expedition. After the failure of the Great Revolution, he began to use Marxism to study the historical development of Chinese society and to study China’s social and revolutionary nature. After the September 18 Incident, especially after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he wrote a large number of books to propagandize the party’s principle of adhering to the war of resistance, solidarity and progress and exposing and criticizing the capitulation and fission-retrogressive activities of the Kuomintang reactionaries. May 1937 joined the Chinese Communist Party. Since 1940, under the direct leadership of Comrade Zhou Enlai, he has been engaged in the propaganda work of the united front and theory for a long time and has made systematic studies on Chinese history with great efforts. He has successively completed the first and second volumes of the “History of China” And “Chinese history theory” and millions of words of the book. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he served as Professor and Dean of the Department of History at Peking University. He later served as Vice President of Peking University and edited a special issue of “Guangming Daily” and “History”. He also collaborated with Guo Moruo and Fan Wenlan to establish the Chinese Historical Society, an historian of the older generation that used historical materialism to scientifically study Chinese history