章开沅教授1926年7月生于安徽，祖籍浙江。1937年秋天，他被迫汇入西迁的难民潮，备尝颠沛流离和失学失业之苦。1946年他考进南京金陵大学历史系。1948年冬天，他和当时许多进步青年一样，参加了学生运动，后来去了解放区。解放区政府安排他到中原大学担任革命史教员，从此开始 Professor Zhang Kaiyuan was born in Anhui Province in July 1926 and is native of Zhejiang. In the autumn of 1937, he was forced to re-enter the influx of refugees who moved westward to prepare himself for the pain of displacement and unemployment. In 1946 he was admitted to Nanjing University Department of history. In the winter of 1948, like many other progressive youths, he participated in the student movement and later went to the liberated areas. The Liberated Areas Government arranged for him to go to the Central Plains University as a teacher of revolutionary history, from the beginning