Lu Zhiwei

Who was Lu Zhiwei?

Lu Zhiwei was a famous Chinese psychologist and linguist from Wuxing, Zhejiang. He is also an important figure in Chinese poetry, both for his critical ideas and as a poet being one of the early poets to work in the Modern Chinese poetry, influenced by a more vernacular style and by international developments in poetry.

Lu went abroad to the United States to study during 1915. In 1920, he graduated from the Columbia University Department of Psychology with the doctoral paper "Forgotten Condition". Lu returned to China that year and was hired by various academies in Nanjing. While he was teaching in the University of Nanjing, he became the first one to introduce the Pavlovian theories into China along with various other Western psychological ideas. In 1927, he arrived in Beijing and was hired as the professor of psychology at Yanjing University. In 1933, he went to University of Chicago faculty of biology to pursue further education in psychology. He returned to China the next year and was appointed as the principal of Yanjing University.