Selected Linguistic Papers of Zhao Yuanren

Author: Zhao Yuanren
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Y.R. Chao (Zhao Yuan-ren) was born in Tianjin on Nov. 3rd, 1892. After receiving traditional Chinese education in his boyhood, he was sent to a high school in Nanking to receive modern education. In 1910, he won a national scholarship and went to Cornell University to study science and mathematics. When he graduated in 1914, he was accepted by Harvard for graduate study in philosophy, and received his Ph.D. degree in 1918. In 1919, he began to teach physics at Tsinghua College in Peking. When Bertrand Russell had his lecturing tour in China, Y.R. Chao was asked to be the interpreter. During the tour, Chao showed exceptional ability in using different local dialects for the translations in the southern region.