Dai Yi (Chinese: 戴逸; pinyin: Dài Yì; September 1926 – 24 January 2024) was a Chinese historian who primarily focused on the history of the Qing dynasty. He was a professor at Renmin University of China. He was also the honorary director of the university's Qing dynasty's history institute as well as a doctoral student supervisor. He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).^[1]

Biography

Dai Yi was originally called Dai Bingheng (Chinese: 戴秉衡; pinyin: Dài Bǐnghéng). He was born in September 1926 in Changshu, Jiangsu.^[2] He once enrolled at the railway management college of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, but two years later, he was admitted into the history college of Peking University. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he took part in Gerakan Youth and Improvement Association. In 1948, he was wanted by the Nationalists. Additionally, with the help of the CCP, he escaped to Hua Bei University (the predecessor of Renmin University of China). After graduation, he stayed in his university for his teaching career.^[3][4]

As of April 2020, Dai Yi was directing the effort to complete the History of Qing, a comprehensive compilation of the history of the Qing dynasty.^[5]

Dai died on 24 January 2024, at the age of 97.^[6]

Main works

• 中国近代史稿 (Modern History of China) (1958)
• 一六八九年中俄尼布楚条约 (Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689) (1974)^[7]
• 简明清史I(A Concise History of Qing Dynasty I) (1980)
• 简明清史II(A Concise History of Qing Dynasty II) (1984)^[1]