Feng Yuanjun

Feng Yuanjun was born into a family of wealthy literati.^[1]

She was educated at the Women's Higher Normal School in Beijing from 1917 to 1922 and participated in the May Fourth Movement during this time.^[1] After her graduation from the Women's School, she entered Peking University as a graduate student of classical Chinese literature.^[1] She graduated from Peking University with an M.A. degree in 1925.^[1][2]

After that, she held teaching appointments at Jinling University in Nanjing and Zhongfa University in Beijing.^[1] In 1930, she was appointed as one of the first female professors at Peking University.^[1] From 1932 to 1935, she worked on a doctoral thesis on classical Chinese literature at the Universite de Paris in France.^[1] During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Feng Yuanjun and her husband Lu Kanru lived and worked in various locations in southern and south-western China.^[1] After the war, she returned with Dongbei University to Shenyang.^[1] In 1946, she joined Shandong University, then located in Qingdao, and later moved with the university to Jinan.^[1] She held her appointment with Shandong University until the end of her career and eventually served as a vice principal of the university.^[1] During the Cultural Revolution, she was prosecuted as a "reactionary scholar".

She died of colon cancer in 1974, before the end of the Cultural Revolution.