#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Chow Tse-Tsung 周策縱 (1916–2007), #historian and scholar of #Redology #紅學 (study of the Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢). Professor @UWMadison, his signature work is The #MayFourth Movement (left image: search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ADOTTR…). #五四 @rereadingstone

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Li Zhi #李贄 (1527–1602), #Confucian #philosopher, #historian, and #Buddhist monk. A critic of Cheng-Zhu 程朱 orthodoxy within Neo-#Confucianism, he gained a reputation as a heretic and #iconoclast, mostly for his Book(s) to Burn #焚書. #Burnafterreading