"(Awake August sixth days), September 11, 1994, English educator Xu Guozhang died in Beijing. illness

our famous English educator, linguist, Beijing Foreign Studies University doctoral tutor Professor Xu Guozhang invalid, died in Beijing on September 11, 1994, at the age of 79 years. History TodayOnHistory.com
Professor Xu Guozhang November 1915 Sunrise born in Haining County of Zhejiang Province. He studied at the Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the southwest of the UN General Assembly; study in the UK in 1947; returning home in October 1949, since a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in January 1957.
Professor Xu Guozhang decades of educational career, tireless, selfless work, pour the life's work in China's foreign language education and language research enterprise until the final moments of life. As a famous English educator, he was editor of the university English teaching materials, starting from the early 1960s, the prevalent nationwide, calendar 30 years without failure, a similar textbook model of English teaching in China.
Professor Xu Guozhang or an eminent linguist. He learned Western, erudite, and made pioneering contributions in the fields of linguistics. Of very lucrative, which language definition, function, origin, language symbols any problems "and many of the unique Transcend, Famous contemporary linguistic research. He also has many achievements in the field of foreign literature, translation and cultural studies, as well as the study of Lu Xun and other academic, has contributed to the cultural exchange between China and left us a precious cultural heritage.