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Cai Yuanpei [Photo/sx.gov.cn]

Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940) was a Chinese educator, revolutionary and politician. He was the president of Peking University from 1916 to 1927, and the founder of Academia Sinica.

He studied philosophy, literature, aesthetics, psychology and cultural history in Germany and France, which laid a theoretical foundation for his efforts to reform feudal education.

At the outbreak of the War of the Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Cai Yuanpei, Li Linsi and other famous Shanghai cultural figures established the Shanghai Cultural Salvation Association.

The organization was the most influential of all the anti-Japanese organizations in China at that time. The Shanghai Cultural Salvation Association played an important role in organizing the strengths of Chinese cultural elites, as well as motivating the masses to resist the Japanese invasion in the anti-Japanese and cultural salvation movements.