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Huang Kan

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Chinese philologist and revolutionary

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According to Wikipedia, Huang Kan , courtesy name Jigang , born into a family of Hubei ancestry in Chengdu, Sichuan province, was a Chinese phonologist, philologist and revolutionary. As a teen, he tested into Wuchang School, a prestigious secondary school, but then was expelled for spreading anti-Qing sentiments. He then went to study in Japan and became a student of the Chinese scholar and philologist Zhang Taiyan. Huang was regarded as the most important phonologist since the high Qing and gained recognition at first through his literary criticism of the sixth century. Later on, he taught at a number of universities in mainland China.

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