Love and Protection: Wang Zhaocheng’s Choice and Pursuit

Abstract

Wang Zhaocheng was the fifth dean of the National Normal College (now Hunan Normal University in Changsha, Hunan Province, China) during the Republic of China, following Liao Shicheng, Pi Mingju, Xie Fuya and Chen Dongyuan. Unfortunately, he died on his way back from collecting college funds from the provincial government on August 10, 1949. The Kuomintang troops who had agreed to escort him shot him and his companions to death by pretending to be gangsters. Wang Zhaocheng was born into a businessman family. He went to Japan twice to further his education abroad in his youth. He later made his name in history for his patriotism and college-protecting actions, and was posthumously recognized as a martyr. It is Wang Zhaocheng’s personal choice to sacrifice his life for the country and to die for the college, and it is also the embodiment and pursuit of his unity of knowledge and action.