Fu Lo-huan (1913–1966), paternal nephew of Fu Ssu-nien (1896–1950), was a renowned researcher of Liao dynasty history, specializing in Song-Liao relations and the Khitan dual governance system. He graduated from the Department ofHistory at Peking University in 1936 and began his career at the IHP as a librarian, later becoming an associate research fellow. In 1947, Fu Lo-huan went to the University of London to pursue his doctoral degree. During his studies abroad, the Chinese Civil War broke out, forcing the IHP to relocate to Taiwan; but despite the difficult circumstances, the IHP still managed to regularly remit his salary while awaiting his return. During this time, however, his political leaningsgradually moved left, which led to an ideological divergence with Fu Ssu-nien. After earning his PhD in 1950, Fu Lo-huan ultimately decided to return to China. Later during the Cultural Revolution, he was brutally persecuted and eventually committed suicide by drowning himself in a lake.
For more, see Kuan-chung Huang, “Writing History in One’s Prime: The Days of Fu Lo-huan at the IHP,” in Along New Pathways of Research, ed. Cheng-sheng Tu and Fan-sen Wang, vol. 2 (Taipei: IHP, Academia Sinica, 1998), 441–453 (in Chinese).