Bai Shouyi

Bai Shouyi (Traditional 白壽彝; Simplified 白寿彝; Pinyin: bai2 shou4 yi2) (February 1909 - March 21 2000) was a prominent Chinese historian, thinker, social activist and ethnologist who revolutionized recent Chinese historiography and pioneered in relying heavily on scientific excavations and reports. However his interpretations, alike other peer historians, based on Marxist views.

Born a son of a Hui merchant in Kaifeng, he became literate in Arabic from his mother and aunt.

He passed away in Beijing at the age of 91.