Mei Guangdi

Mei Guangdi (January 2, 1890 - December 27, 1945), also known as Dickson, was a modern Chinese scholar and writer. Born in Wanling Zhangwuwang of the Mei family in Xuancheng, he is a representative of the Xueheng School and one of the founders of the "Xueheng" magazine. He is the first Chinese doctoral student in literature to study in the United States. He studied under the sinologist James Babbitt. He served as an assistant professor of Chinese at Harvard University and later became the dean of the School of Liberal Arts and director of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and Literature at National Zhejiang University. He was both friends and enemies with Hu Shi, a modern scholar and representative figure of the New Culture Movement, and they had long-term debates with each other.