Office1: | Director of National Palace Museum |
Term Start1: | 5 March 1929 |
Term End1: | 17 November 1930 |
Predecessor1: | New title |
Successor1: | Ma Heng |
Office2: | Minister of Agricultural and Mineral |
Term Start2: | 18 October 1928 |
Term End2: | 17 November 1930 |
Predecessor2: | New title |
Successor2: | H. H. Kung |
Office3: | Minister of Education |
Term Start3: | 31 December 1925 |
Term End3: | 14 March 1926 |
Predecessor3: | Zhang Shizhao |
Successor3: | Ma Junwu |
Office4: | President of Hunan First Normal University |
Term Start4: | June 1920 |
Term End4: | January 1924 |
Predecessor4: | Qin Hanhuan |
Successor4: | Li Jimin |
Yi Peiji | |
Native Name: | 易培基 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Birth Date: | 28 February 1880 |
Birth Place: | Changsha, Hunan, Qing Empire |
Death Place: | Shanghai, Republic of China |
Party: | Kuomintang |
Occupation: | Politician, scholar, educator |
Alma Mater: | Wuhan University |
Yi Peiji (; 28 February 1880 – September 1937) was a Chinese politician, scholar, and educator.
Yi was born in Changsha, Hunan, on February 28, 1880. He graduated from Hubei Fangyan College (now Wuhan University), then he went to Japan to study under Zhang Taiyan.
After the establishment of Republic of China, he became a secretary of Li Yuanhong. Then he taught at Changsha Normal College and Hunan First Normal University, his students included Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen, Xiao Zisheng, Xiao San, He Shuheng, Li Weihan, and Li Lisan.[1]
He held the three responsibilities of president of Hunan Provincial Library, secretary-general of Hunan government, and president of Hunan First Normal University from June 1920 to November 1920. Then he served as president of Beijing Women's Normal University (now Beijing Normal University). He was Minister of Education in December 1925, and held that office until March 1926. In 1927 he became president of National Labor University, a position he held until September 1930. He served as minister of Agricultural and Mineral between October 1928 to November 1930. In March 1929, he was appointed director of National Palace Museum, he remained in that position until November 1930, when he was appointed president of National Beiping Normal College (now Beijing Normal University).[2]
He died of illness in Shanghai in September 1937.[3]