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Chen Shixiang 陳世驤
Rao Zongyi饒宗頤
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Rao Zongyi is a native of Chaozhou, Guangdong Province.
Erudite and esteemed scholar of Chinese art and culture, widely known for the breadth and depth of his knowledge.
Recognized as a Guohua painter, calligrapher, and poet.
Held teaching appointments in National University of Singapore, University of Hong Kong, and Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Served as visiting professor at Yale University and in France and Japan.
Received Prize Stanislas Julian in 1962 and Art and Letters Official medal from French Ministry of Culture.
Born in Qiyang, Hunan province.
Professor of Chinese studies at the University of Wisconsin.
Born in Shandong.
Education reformer and university professor.
Native of Beijing.
Historian and education reformer.
Born in Tianjin.
Vice-Chancellor of Tsinghua University, and later Minister of Education in Taiwan.
Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu.
Music enthusiast proficient in playing many Chinese instruments.
Expert on Chinese music history.
Born in Yixing, Jiangsu.
Educational reformer and professor of Peking University and Beijing Normal University.
Born in Beijing to a Manchu family.
Linguist specializing in the languages of minority groups in China and phonology.
Born in Jiangsu.
Renowned seal-carver and expert in modern Chinese linguistics.
Born in Jiangsu.
Renowned Sinologist who founded New Asia College, Hong Kong.
Born in Henan.
Archaeologist affiliated with the Archaeological Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Born in Nanjing.
Taught music at various universities.
Expert seal-carver.
Born in Jiangsu.
Poet and writer.
Born in Jiangsu.
Educational reformer and Principal of New Asia College, Hong Kong
Born in Anhui.
Art historian, art theorist, and university professor.
Native of Beijing.
Reformer and specialist in English literature.
Native of Wuxing, Zhejiang province.
Taught at Peking University from 1913-20 and 1931.
Became an advocate of reform and edited the publication of New Youth. Moved in 1939 to Chongqing, where he rigorously researched the history and theory of calligraphy, as well as practiced it.
Became a deputy head of Shanghai’s new Cultural Administration Bureau and a member of the People’s Congress of the Shanghai Municipality upon the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Practiced writing at least 500 characters every morning before breakfast.
Revived interest in running and cursive scripts during the 1930s.
Denounced as a "counter-revolutionary scholar” during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76).
Born in Zhejiang.
Renowned epigrapher and university professor.
Former director of the Palace Museum.
Born in Anhui.
Poet and essayist who taught at Qingdao University.
Born in Nanjing.
Opera enthusiast, prolific writer, and teacher.
Born in Jiangsu.
Political activist and authority in linguistics and philology.
Native of Yunnan.
Sinologist specializing in the Songs of Chu, Dunhuang studies, and phonology.
Born in Shanghai.
Historian, poet, editor, teacher, and wife of Jiang Liangfu.
Renowned philosopher and art theorist.
Taught at Peking University, Xiamen University and Tsinghua University.
Born in Hubei.
Professor of Political Science at Tsinghua University and later Professor at the Law School of Peking University.
Born in Zhejiang.
Renowned entomologist.
- Colleague of Chang Ch’ung-ho in the University of California, Berkeley, library.
- Renowned historian of Ming and Qing history.
Born in Jiangxi.
Known for his writings on Chinese art and culture under the name Chiang Yee.
Professor of literature at Columbia University.
Native of Zhejiang.
Renowned Sinologist and professor at Harvard University.
Native of Anhui.
Leader of the New Culture Movement and advocate of literary reform.
President of Peking University after WWII, and later head of Academia Sinica in 1957.
Born in Guangzhou.
Linguist specializing in the languages of Native Americans, Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, etc.
Professor of University of Washington, Seattle, and University of Hawaii.
Born in Jiangsu.
Historian specializing in the Six Dynasties period and university professor in U.S.
- Classmate of Chang Ch’ung-ho and wife of librarian Qian Cunxun.
Born in Jiangsu.
Librarian and celebrated historian of books and printing; writes under the name Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin.
Born in Henan.
Taught Chinese literature at Yale University, University of Hawaii, Ohio State University and Chinese University of Hong Kong, etc.
Native of Jiangsu.
Former Vice Director of the National Palace Museum.
Born in Henan.
Art historian and specialist in Chinese painting and calligraphy and served as Vice Director of the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Political activist who was associated with Feng Yuxiang馮玉祥 (1882-1948).
Historian.
Born in Beijing. a calligrapher, guohua painter, and scholar of Chinese art and culture.
Received B.A. degree in 1936 from Furen University, Beijing, and MA degree in 1946 from Columbia University.
Taught Chinese language for more than thirty years at Yale University and Seton Hall University.
Authored numerous textbooks, dictionaries, and studies of Chinese art, notably Master of the Lotus Garden on Bada Shanren八大山人 (1626–1705).
Born in Tianjin.
Renowned linguist and authority on Chinese music.
Born in Nanjing.
Writer and wife of Zhao Yuanren.