Yuan Jiahua
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Most Influential Person Across History
Chinese linguist
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Yuan Jiahua's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics Peking University
- Masters Linguistics Peking University
- Bachelors Chinese Language and Literature Peking University
Why Is Yuan Jiahua Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yuan Jiahua was a Chinese linguist and dialectologist from Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province. He graduated from the English Department of Peking University in 1932, worked as an editor in the North Shanghai New Books Office and as a teaching assistant at Peking University. In 1937, he went to Oxford University to major in Old English and Germanic languages. After returning to China, he held professorships in Kunming and Beijing. He has made significant contributions to the field of linguistics primarily in researching the languages of China's ethnic minorities and Chinese dialects.
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