George A. Kennedy
American sinologist
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George A. Kennedy 's Degrees
- PhD Chinese Language and Literature University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Chinese Language and Literature University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Chinese Language and Literature University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Alexander Kennedy , was an American sinologist known for his studies of classical Chinese and for his teaching of Chinese to students. Life and career George Kennedy was born on 17 May 1901 in Moganshan, Zhejiang Province, China, where his parents Alexander and Ada Kennedy were serving as Protestant missionaries. Although his family spoke English at home, Kennedy grew up speaking the local Chinese dialect, a form of Wu Chinese, and often said that Chinese was his native language. The Kennedy family left China in 1918 after George's father and brother Fred died less than a month apart. They returned to the United States, where Kennedy attended the College of Wooster. From 1922 to 1925 he studied theology at the Western Theological Seminary and the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. During this time he became friends with Luther Carrington Goodrich, who later became professor of Chinese at Columbia University.
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