Jin Guantao
{{Short description|Chinese scholar}}
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Jin Guantao (Chinese: 金观涛; born 1947) is a Chinese scholar who is currently the chair professor of the Department of Chinese Literature at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan.{{Cite web |title=GUAN-TAO JIN |url=https://ah.lib.nccu.edu.tw/scholar?id=7077&title=person |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=National Chengchi University}}{{Cite web |title=Jin Guantao 金观涛 b.1947 {{!}} Centre for Chinese Research |url=https://ccr.ubc.ca/jin-guantao/ |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=University of British Columbia}} Jin was an influential figure in the New Enlightenment movement in the 1980s in mainland China, creating the Towards the Future Book Series with Bao Zunxin and others in 1984.{{Cite journal |last=Bartel |first=David |date=2011-07-30 |title=No Forbidden Zone in 21st Century |url=https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/5576 |journal=China Perspectives |language=en |volume=2011 |issue=2 |pages=66‑73 |doi=10.4000/chinaperspectives.5576 |issn=2070-3449}}{{Cite web |date=2012-05-21 |title=金觀濤和劉青峰老師簡介 |url=https://hc.nccu.edu.tw/public/view.php?main=3&sub=25&ssub=27&id=142 |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=National Chengchi University}}{{Cite web |date=2008-11-17 |title=[预告]深入分析近30年中国思想启蒙发展历程 |trans-title=[Preview] Deep analysis of the development of China's enlightenment thought in the past 30 years |url=https://phtv.ifeng.com/program/zhtfl/200811/1117_1687_881651.shtml |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=Phoenix New Media}} In 1990, he founded the academic journal Twenty-First Century with his wife Liu Qingfeng at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Biography
Jin Guantao was born in Yiwu, Zhejiang in 1947, and graduated from Peking University in 1970 with a degree in chemistry. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), he became interested in humanities and social sciences.
Jin was an active figure during the New Enlightenment movement in mainland China in the 1980s, creating the popular Towards the Future Book Series with Bao Zunxin and others in 1984. He also served as the director of the Philosophy of Science in the Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web |title=High Culture Fever |url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft0489n683&chunk.id=d0e1118&toc.id=d0e734&brand=ucpress |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=University of California}} In 1986, he spent a year as a visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.{{Cite web |last=Jin |first=Guantao |last2=Liu |first2=Qingfeng |date=2011-11-01 |title=兴盛与危机：论中国社会超稳定结构 |url=http://www.megbook.com.hk/mall/detail.jsp?proID=3984218 |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=megBook (Hong Kong)}} In 1988, he became the main advisor to the influential TV documentary River Elegy.
After the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, Jin moved to the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he founded the academic journal Twenty-First Century and built "the Database for the Study of Modern Chinese Thought (1830-1930)" with his wife Liu Qingfeng. Jin was a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1989 to 2008.
Since 2009, Jin has been a professor at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan.