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Chinese academic circles respect Mr. Qian as "a generation of Confucianism".Some scholars call him the last scholar-bureaucrat and master of Chinese studies in China. Yu Yingshi said: "Mr. Qian has only publicly discussed Chinese and Western cultural issues since the "Outline of National History". He has shown his 'suzerain' in learning with a clear standpoint of national culture." Meng Wentong commented on Qian Mu: "Jun's calligraphy style is big and thoughtful, but it should be compared with Gu Tinglin's elders three hundred years ago."Since Qianjia, there have been few horses.

Later generations commented on Qian Mu, and different people have different opinions, some belittled him as "pedantic and self-contained", or praised him for "really having the courage to go to the sage and continue to learn". Liu Mengxi said in an article introducing modern Chinese historians that Mr. Qian Mu is "a master of cultural history" and that "after Zhang Taiyan, only Qian Mu deserves the name of a master of Chinese studies". In his later years, Qian Mu and Lin Yutang lived next to each other. Lin Yutang, who was proficient in English, said that after reading Qian Mu's "China's Academic History in the Past Three Hundred Years", he decided to switch to Chinese writings.

Yang Liansheng highly respected Qian Mu. He said: "Mr. Qian's history of Chinese academic thought is extensive and profound, and no one in the world can match him." He thought that "Hu Shizhi might not be able to write the outline of Qian Mu's "Zhu Zixin Xuean". " Xu Fuguan criticized Qian Mu's view of history as "confusion of conscience". When Qian Mu passed away, Qian Weichang's elegiac couplet said: "The parents who gave birth to me, and the uncle who gave birth to me, recount the old things from the beginning, and I am deeply grateful; I am a teacher in the public and an elder in the family. The present is gone, and I cherish the memories of my legacy. So sad."

Yale University awarded Qian Mu an honorary doctorate: You are the representative and guardian of an ancient culture. You brought the wisdom of the East out of the cage to enrich the free world. Yin Haiguang commented on Qian Mu: "...they are totally a group of people walking on the hazy old road in the setting sun. Their conclusions are easily drawn from temples or famous people's speeches, and their classics dare not (and have never) Met with Freud, Darwin. . . . Their basic mentality was withdrawn, locked in, rigid, exclusive. Me and them were . . . very different." Yu Yingshi's teacher Qian Mu said: "I spent my whole life calling for the soul of my homeland. At that time, the musk deer was smashed into dust, and the incense in the unlearned house did not disperse. Thousands of miles away, Zeng Jiashan fell into a dream, and today I rode a whale to cross the sea. It was cold at the beginning of the month outside the Sushu building."