Zing-Yang Kuo

Zing-Yang Kuo
In this Chinese name, the family name is Kuo.

Kuo Zing-yang (or Z. Y. Kuo; simplified Chinese: 郭任远; traditional Chinese: 郭任遠; pinyin: Guō Rènyuǎn; Jyutping: Kuo Yam6 Yun5; 1898–1970), was a Chinese experimental and physiological psychologist. He was a renowned educator and is also notable as having been the President of Zhejiang University, who was expelled by Zhejiang students in 1935.[1]

Kuo was known as "Out-Watsons Mr. Watson" in the international anti-instinct movement.[2]

  1. ^ Xu, Xiao (2015-02-15). ""争议"算什么，看看民国时期的校长多难当" ["Controversy" is a small deal, as compared with what university presidents in the republican period had been through]. The Paper. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
  2. ^ Wang, Yong; Bao, Chenye; Chen, Wei; Wen, Shengjun (2024-04-02). "The forgotten militant and his enduring mission: Zing-Yang Kuo and his extraordinary years in behavioral neuroembryology (1929–1939)". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 33 (2): 125–146. doi:10.1080/0964704X.2023.2254350. ISSN 0964-704X.