Bidspirit auction | CHEN YUAN: (1880-1971)

CHEN YUAN: (1880-1971) - CHEN YUAN: (1880-1971) Chinese historian and educator, recognised as one of the ´Four Great Historians´ of Modern China. Autograph statement signed, Chen Yuan , one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. (September 1948). The head of the page is annotated Maxims of Life of the great writers of the whole World in the hand of a collector, to which Chen responds ´I believe in Golden Mean´ . A few minor, light creases to the edges, VG The philosophical concept of Golden Mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency, and was famously described by Aristotle.