1902). These novels emphasized modernization in the West and the call for reform. Educator In the early 1920s, Liang retired from politics and taught at the Tung-nan University in Shanghai and Tsinghua University Research Institute in Peking. He founded the Jiangxue she (Chinese Lecture Association) and brought important intellectual figures to China, including Driesch and Rabindranath Tagore. Academically he was a renowned scholar of his time, introducing Western learning and ideology, and making extensive studies of ancient Chinese culture. He was impacted by a social-Darwinian perspective to researched approaches to combine the western thought and Chinese learning. As an educator, Liang Qichao thought children were the future of the development of China, and he thought the education was significant for children's growth, and the traditional education approaches needed to be changed, and the educational reformation was important in Modern China. He thought children needed to cultivate creative thinking and improve the ability of understanding, and the new school became important to instruct children in the new approaches in the education. During this last decade of his life, published studies of Chinese cultural history, Chinese literary history and historiography. Liang reexamined the works of Mozi, and authored, amongst other works, The Political Thought of the Pre-Qing Period, and Intellectual Trends in the Qing Period. He also had a strong interest in Buddhism and wrote historical and political articles on its influence in China. Liang influenced many of his students in producing their own literary works. They included Xu Zhimo, renowned modern poet, and Wang Li, an accomplished poet and founder of Chinese linguistics as a modern discipline. Publications Introduction to the Learning of the Qing Dynasty (1920) The Learning of Mohism (1921) Chinese Academic History of the Recent 300 Years (1924) History of Chinese Culture (1927) The Construction of New China The Philosophy of Lao Tzu The History of Buddhism in China Collected Works of Yinbingshi, Zhonghua Book Co, Shanghai 1936, republished in Beijing, 2003, /K.210 Family Paternal grandfather Liang Weiqing () (1815 - 1892), pseudonym Jingquan () Paternal grandmother Lady Li () (1817 - 1873), daughter of Guangxi admiral Li Diguang () Father Liang Baoying () (1849 - 1916), courtesy name Lianjian () Mother Lady Zhao () (1852 - 1887) First wife Li Huixian (), married Liang Qichao in 1891, died of illness on 13 September 1924 Second wife Wang Guiquan (), initially Li Huixian's handmaiden before becoming Liang Qichao's