Chao, Yuen Ren, 1892-1982
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- Summary
- Yuen Ren Chao, also known as Zhao Yuanren, was a Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer, who contributed to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar. Chao was born and raised in China, then attended university in the United States, where he earned degrees from Cornell University and Harvard University. A naturally gifted polyglot and linguist, his Mandarin Primer was one of the most widely used Mandarin Chinese textbooks in the 20th century. He invented the Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization scheme, which, unlike pinyin and other romanization systems, transcribes Mandarin Chinese pronunciation without diacritics or numbers to indicate tones. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
- Born
- 1892 [2]
- 1892-11-03 [6]
- Birth Place
- Tianjin [6]
- Died
- 1982 [2]
- 1982-02-24 [6]
- Death Place
- Cambridge [6]
- Country
- China [2]
- United States [2]
- Language
- Chinese [3]
- Occupation
- linguist [6]
- composer [6]
- translator [6]
- poet [6]
- university teacher [6]
- mathematician [6]
- Profession
- Linguist [2]
- Employer
- Harvard University [6]
- University of California, Berkeley [6]
- Cornell University [6]
- Tsinghua University [6]
- Educated at
- Cornell University [6]
- Tsinghua University [6]
- Harvard University [6]
- Country of Education
- People's Republic of China [6]
- United States [6]
- Archives at
- Niels Bohr Library & Archives [6][6]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [6]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [6]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. National Library of Korea
- 6. Wikidata
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