After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Jiang wrote a book "Southwest Ethnic Problems in the Anti-Japanese War" for Zhongshan Culture and Education Museum, which was published as the 53rd in the Anti-Japanese War series. After Sun Yat-sen University moved to Zhengjiang, Mr. Jiang also moved to Zheng Jiang. During this period, he took students to Zheng Jiang, Kunming, Lunan, Wuding and other places to conduct field surveys of ethnic minorities. 1940, Sun Yat-sen University moved back to Guangdong, and Jiang stayed in Yunnan, and accepted three tasks: First, he went to Chongqing to teach China's national history for three months in the frontier ethnic training class and frontier school run by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China; The second is to investigate the Yi society in Daliangshan; The third is to investigate the Dai nationality in Xishuangbanna. Jiang went deep into the hinterland of Daliangshan and Xishuangbanna and successfully completed these three tasks. 1In February, 947, Jiang returned to Guangzhou and was employed as a professor at Sun Yat-sen University and Zhuhai University, and concurrently served as the head of the Department of Literature and History at Zhuhai University. During this period, according to years of investigation, he compiled and published three monographs, including Ethnic Essays in Southwest Frontier, Slavery of Liangshan Yi Nationality and Living Culture of Bai Nationality. The latter two books have become classics for studying the history and culture of Yi and Dai people, and are now listed as required reading materials for graduate students majoring in anthropology, ethnology and national history in many universities.
1948 10, Jiang was hired as a professor of Yunnan University, and taught cultural anthropology, Dai history, Yi history, Yi society, Siam history, China ethnic history and ethnic history successively. Teacher Jiang's class is based on the cases obtained from the investigation, and the explanations are informative and vivid, which is deeply loved by students. At the same time, he also went deep into the southern part of Yunnan to carry out ethnic surveys, and based on rich survey data, he wrote a survey of Hui rural areas in Nanshadian, Yunnan.
During 1950, Jiang participated in the Central Ethnic Delegation, served as the Youth League Committee, and visited Wuding, Lijiang, and mangshi in Yunnan. 195 1 Go to Beijing to attend the first national conference on ethnic education. 1953 After the adjustment of Yunnan University, Teacher Jiang turned to study national history. He studied anthropology, ethnology, sociology and national history together, and published articles such as The Combination of Anthropology and Ethnology, The Origin of Anthropology and Its Development in China, and two books such as Notes on Bai Yi, Local Officials and Tusi in Ming Dynasty. During the Cultural Revolution, he was falsely accused of being a "ghostly" and persecuted. During the period of 1979, Jiang participated in the establishment of the Southwest Frontier Minority History Institute of Yunnan University and served as its director. From 65438 to 0984, Mr. Jiang was hired as the doctoral supervisor of Yunnan University, bringing out a number of excellent doctoral students, including Professor Fang Hui, the first female doctor who studied ethnic history in our province. At the same time, his masterpiece Dai Shi was published. This book is the crystallization of his long-term research on Dai studies, and won the first prize of outstanding achievements in social sciences in Yunnan Province. Since his later years, regardless of his old age and infirmity, Mr. Jiang, with the help of students such as Dr. Lin Chaomin, has selected 22 classic papers from more than 100 published articles and compiled them into the Collection of Ethnic Studies in Jiang. At the same time, he also organized the compilation of China's national history. He died in February of 1988 and 65438+ at the age of 79. Jiang Yisheng teaches and educates people. He trained a group of doctors, master students and young and middle-aged teachers for Yunnan University, and made pioneering contributions to ethnic studies in China, especially in the southwest.