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Mei Tsu-lin
Mei Tsu-lin (; 14 February 1933 – 14 October 2023) was a Chinese-American linguist. Life and career Mei was born in Beijing on 14 February 1933, and immigrated to the United States in 1949, during the Chinese Civil War. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oberlin College in 1954, and completed a master's degree in the same subject at Harvard University two years later, then obtained a doctorate in philosophy from Yale University in 1962. Mei taught at Yale and held an assistant and associate professorship at Harvard before joining the Cornell University faculty in 1972. From 1994 to 2001, Mei held Cornell's Hu Shih Chair Professorship. Mei was elected to Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 1994 and served as president of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics that same year, Republished as: succeeding Ting Pang-hsin. Mei was a founding board member of the Li Fang-Kuei Society for Chinese Linguistics from 2003 to 2014, and also a member of the Taiwan-based As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as China's List of cities in China by population, second largest city by urban area after Shanghai. It is located in North China, Northern China, and is governed as a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality under the direct administration of the Government of the People's Republic of China, State Council with List of administrative divisions of Beijing, 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province and neighbors Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jing-Jin-Ji, Jing-Jin-Ji cluster. Beijing is a global city and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
