Ting Pang-hsin explained

Ting Pang-hsin
Native Name:丁邦新
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Date:28 November 1936
Birth Place:Ju-kao (Rugao) County, Kiangsu, Republic of China
Death Place:California, United States
Alma Mater:National Taiwan University
University of Washington
Discipline:Linguistics

Ting Pang-hsin (; 28 November 1936 – 30 January 2023) was a Chinese linguist, and an academician of the Academia Sinica.[1]

Biography

Ting was born in Ju-kao County (Rugao County), Kiangsu (Jiangsu), on 28 November 1936.[2] After the defeat of the Kuomintang by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, Ting relocated to Taiwan. He attended National Taiwan University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1959 and master's degree in 1963 both in Chinese literature.[2] He went on to receive his doctoral degree from the University of Washington in 1969.[2]

Ting worked at the Academia Sinica after university. He was elected assistant research fellow in August 1964, associate research fellow in February 1970, and research fellow in August 1975. In August 1981, he was named acting director of the Institute of History and Philology, confirmed in March 1985. He was a professor of National Taiwan University from 1975 to 1989 and the University of California, Berkeley from 1989 to 1998.[2] During his tenure at Berkeley, Ting held the Agassiz Professorship of Chinese Linguistics from 1994.[3] [4] Ting was In 1996, he was chosen as dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a post he kept until 2004.[2]

Between 1993 and 1994, Ting replaced William Shi-Yuan Wang as president of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics.[5] [6] He was succeeded by Mei Tsu-lin.

Ting died in California on 30 January 2023, at the age of 86.[7] [8]

Publications

Honours and awards

Notes and References

  1. News: Wang Keyue (Chinese: 王可悦) . https://newshub.sustech.edu.cn/html/201804/7353.html . zh:台湾“中研院”院士丁邦新教授畅谈诗律和创作 . sustech.edu.cn . 27 April 2018 . 1 February 2023 . zh.
  2. News: https://www.sohu.com/a/636064794_121124334 . zh:沉痛悼念著名语言学家丁邦新先生 . Sohu . 1 February 2023 . 1 February 2023 . zh.
  3. News: Pang-Hsin Ting . 13 September 2023 . Academia Sinica.
  4. News: Agassiz Professor of Chinese emeritus Pang-hsin Ting 丁邦新 passed away on January 30, 2023. . 13 September 2023 . University of California, Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies.
  5. News: Academician Pang-hsin Ting Has Passed Away . 13 September 2023 . 9 February 2023.
  6. A Tribute to Prof. Pang-hsin Ting from the Editorial Board of Journal of Chinese Linguistics 《中国语言学报》编辑委员会致敬丁邦新先生 . Journal of Chinese Linguistics . 2023 .
  7. News: Pang-Hsin Ting . 13 September 2023 . Legacy.com . 2 February 2023.
  8. News: 敬悼！本所前所長、通信研究員丁邦新院士於2023年1月30日在美國逝世，享壽87歲。 . 13 September 2023 . Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica . 31 January 2023 . zh.

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