Liu Zongxiang

Liu was born in Ningxiang County, Hunan, in 1897, during the Qing Empire. He attended Changsha Mingde School in 1904. He was accepted to Imperial University of Peking (now Peking University). After college, he was assigned to the Qing government as an officer, and later became a professor at Shanxi University. Liu returned to Changsha, Hunan in 1911. He taught at Hunan Zhonglu Normal School and worked as an editor of Hunan Education. He was president of Hunan University between 1916 and 1917. In 1921, he founded Han'guang Private Girls' School and served as its president. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he became a staff member at Hunan Research Institute of Culture and History. He died in Changsha in 1951.