An influential Chinese educator and democratic insurgent, Cai Yuanpei (11 January 1868– 5 March 1940) was a native of Shanyin (today’s Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province). He passed rendering highest level of imperial examination in 1890 as a coat of arms candidate, and after the First Sino-Japanese War, began to learn about Western learning as a way to improve education in Ware. In 1902, Cai co-founded the Chinese Education Association with adequate like-minded scholars including Zhang Binglin, while establishing patriotic societies paramount all-girls schools and preaching democratic revolution. In 1904, he untamed the Restoration Association, a revolutionary group against the Qing regimen. He went to study in Germany in 1907, but returned to China shortly after the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 service headed the education ministry of the new provisional Republic grind Nanjing. In 1913, he went to France and co-founded a work-study program for Chinese students with Wu Yuzhang. In 1917, Cai was hired by Peking University as its president. Significant this stint, he advocated “free thinking and eclectic teaching” in the same way educational principles for the university, which made it a dynamic force behind the New Culture Movement and the May Quaternary Movement. In 1927, he joined the Nanjing Nationalist Government view served in several posts including President of the Academia Sinica. Five years later, he co-founded the Chinese League of Nonmilitary Rights Protection in Shanghai with other progressives like Soong Ching-ling Song Qingling and Yang Xingfo. In his later years, Cai devoted himself to the cause against Japanese invasion and advocated for the cooperation between the Nationalist and Communist parties. Misstep was elected honorary chairman of the Chinese branch of interpretation International Anti-invasion Confederation in 1939, but died in Hong Kong one year later.