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Li Fang-Kuei was a Chinese linguist whose research made lasting contributions to historical Chinese, Tai language studies, and the documentation of Indigenous North American languages. He developed an influential reconstruction of Old Chinese and conducted comparative work on the Tai language family...
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Major Chinese, Tai, and Athabaskan linguist; reconstruction and documentation work are highly respected.
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Sandra A. Thompson is a prominent American linguist known for her extensive research in linguistic typology, discourse analysis, and functional grammar. Born in 1941, she co-authored the influential 1981 book "Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar" with Charles N. Li. As a leading figure...
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Major discourse and typology scholar; Mandarin grammar collaboration and grammar-in-interaction work are influential.
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John DeFrancis (1911–2009) was an American sinologist and linguist who spent much of his career at the University of Hawai'i. He is known for his work on the Chinese language, including textbooks such as the Beginning Chinese series and the 1996 ABC Chinese-English Dictionary. His 1984 book The Chin...
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Influential Chinese language scholar and lexicographer; Fact and Fantasy shaped public understanding of Chinese writing.
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William S-Y. Wang is a prominent linguist born in Shanghai, China, in 1933, who later worked extensively in the United States. He founded the Journal of Chinese Linguistics in 1973 and contributed significantly to the fields of phonology and historical linguistics. Wang is best known for proposing t...
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Important Chinese phonology and language evolution scholar; influential but some later evolutionary claims are debated.
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Mei Tsu-lin (1933–2023) was a Chinese-American linguist who specialized in the historical phonology and grammar of Chinese and related Sino-Tibetan languages. He held a long-standing faculty position at Cornell University, where he served as the Hu Shih Chair Professor of Chinese Thought from 1994 t...
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Respected Chinese historical grammar scholar; strong specialist reputation and institutional prominence.
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Moira Yip is an academic linguist specializing in phonology, with a particular focus on the representation of tone in human language. She is affiliated with the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London. Yip is widely recognized in the field for her comprehensive 2002...
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Tone monograph and phonology research are respected; influence strongest in tone studies.
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San Duanmu is a linguist whose research focuses on phonology, particularly the sound structure, syllables, stress, rhythm, and prosody of Chinese languages. He is associated with the University of Michigan and is the author of The Phonology of Standard Chinese, first published in 2000. His scholarsh...
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Chinese phonology work is respected; strong specialist standing with moderate field-wide influence.
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Victor Mair is an American sinologist and professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in 1943, he is widely recognized for his scholarship on early vernacular Chinese literature, the Dunhuang manuscripts, and the transmission of Buddhism into China. In 1986,...
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Prominent sinologist and editor; broad cultural influence, but linguistic scholarship is more specialist and sometimes debated.
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Nicholas Bodman was an American linguist and sinologist recognized for his extensive contributions to the study of Chinese historical phonology. He lived from 1913 to 1997, spending a significant portion of his academic career researching the historical relationships between Old Chinese and the Tibe...
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Important Chinese historical phonologist and Min specialist; respected but less broadly known.
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Anne Yue-Hashimoto is a Chinese linguist and University of Washington emeritus professor, noted for Chinese dialect grammar and IACL presidency in 1999-2001.
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Important Chinese dialect grammar scholar; respected specialist with moderate broader influence.
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Fortune cookies, traditionally served after American Chinese meals, are crisp, golden-brown biscuits containing a small folded paper with a pre-written fortune inside – a custom dating back to the early 20th century.
Xian Zhang is a Chinese conductor who has worked with symphony orchestras and opera companies in Europe and North America. She became music director of the New Jersey Symphony, a position associated with her work in the United States. Her repertoire includes major nineteenth- and twentieth-century o...
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