page_title: Li Jinxi
section_title: Academic contribution
hierarchical_section_title: Li Jinxi / Academic contribution
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 黎錦熙作《國語文法》封面
context_page_description: Li Jinxi was a Chinese linguist and educator. In 1911, he graduated from the Hunan Teachers College. He participated in the China Alliance Committee in his early years and launched the Jiusan Society in 1946. He was the chief editor of Changsha Newspaper and professor of Hunan No.1 Normal College. After that he held the positions of the Dean of the College of Arts of Beijing Normal College, Peking University, Yanjing University, the National Northwest Joint University, Hunan University and Beijing Normal University as the president of Literary College. After 1949, he became the president of the Chinese Language College of Beijing Normal University, a committee member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a committee member of the Chinese Writing Reform Committee, and the standing committee of the Jiusan Society.
  He devoted his life to studying and teaching language, making great achievements on the Chinese grammar. He made great contributions to the Writing Reform, and was regarded as "The Father of the Chinese phonetic alphabet".
context_section_description: Li Jinxi was a founder of the modern Chinese grammar theory, an advocator and vanguard of the Mandarin revolution. His book, New Chinese Grammar (新著国语文法), published in 1924 by Shanghai Commercial Press, became the first comprehensive and systematic description of the modern Chinese grammar. This book, the summary of his long years’ Chinese teaching experience, was applied to the high school education, so it produced a lasting effect on student generations in China from 1920s through 1950s. When Li Jinxi devoted himself in proceeding the reform of Mandarin, he especially focused on promoting the alphabetic writing, which did a great help to the adult literacy project (扫盲运动) and children literacy education. However, the July 7th incident of 1937 left phonetic molds in the Japanese occupied territory. As a result, his dream of promoting the phonetic alphabetic failed.
  Li Jinxi wrote more than 300 papers and more than 30 books on languages. He made significant contributions to the Chinese word-formation studies and modern Chinese grammar.
caption: New Chinese Grammar
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