Milena Doleželová-Velingerová (February 8, 1932 – October 20, 2012) was a renowned Czech

sinologist Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilizatio ...

. Having studied with Jaroslav Průšek in Prague and Wu Xiaoling 吳曉鈴 in Peking, she left Prague in 1968 after the Soviet invasion, and made her later career at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

. After retirement in 1996, she continued to publish widely. Milena Doleželová-Velingerová received her M.A. degree from the

Charles University in Prague Charles University (CUNI; , UK; ; ), or historically as the University of Prague (), is the largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the oldest universities in the world in continuous operation, the oldest university north of the ...

in 1955 and her Ph.D. degree from the

Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences The Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Czech: ''Československá akademie věd'', Slovak: ''Česko-slovenská akadémia vied'') was established in 1953 to be the scientific center for Czechoslovakia. It was succeeded by the Czech Academy of Science ...

in 1964.

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Milena Doleželová-Velingerová February 8, 1932 - October 20, 2012 Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
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''. Saturday October 27, 2012. - Obituary {{DEFAULTSORT:Dolezelova-Velingerova, Milena 1932 births 2012 deaths Czech sinologists Charles University alumni