Zhang Xuanchen

Zhang Xuanchen A native of Pingyuan, Shandong, graduated from Northeastern University.

After graduating from college, Zhang Xuanchen taught in middle schools until he went to the southwest region after the “July 7 Incident”.

In 1945, Zhang Xuanchen, who was in the Baisha University Preparatory Class specially set up by the Ministry of Education in Baisha Town, Jiangjin, Sichuan, was invited to Taiwan to serve as the head of the General Affairs Group of the Taiwan National Language Committee. Since then, Zhang Xuanchen spent the rest of his life in Taiwan.

In 1948, Zhang Xuanchen hosted the release of a photocopy of his father-in-law Wang Yimin’s handwritten “Record of the Canglang Pavilion” in Taiwan, for which Wei Jiangong specifically wrote a postscript.

Zhang Xuanchen went to Taiwan alone and did not contact his relatives in the mainland until 1979. His son Zhang Wenping was the principal of the Teacher Training School in Lingxian County, Shandong (now Lingcheng District, Dezhou City, Shandong), and visited Taiwan to see him and attend Zhang Xuanchen’s funeral.

Group photo of key personnel of the 1946 Taiwan National Language Committee, first from left is Zhang Xuanchen