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Receiving his undergraduate degree from [[Yenching University]] where he studied under [[William Hung (sinologist)]], he would later became assistant librarian there (1930–32).<ref name="auto">{{Cite journal|last=Beal|first=Edwin G.|date=1985|title=Fang Chao-ying|journal=Journal of East Asian Libraries| url=https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1398&context=jeal}}</ref> There, he met [[Tu Lien-che]], who would become his wife and lifelong collaborator. The pair travelled to the United States for Fang's study at [[Harvard University]], where he also worked in the Chinese-Japanese Library, before becoming assistant to the [[Library of Congress]] Orientalia librarian, [[Arthur W. Hummel, Sr.]] His later career was spent in university institutions: University of California Berkeley beginning in 1955, at the [[Australian National University]] (1961–63) and from 1963 at [[Columbia University]]. With Tu, he is best-remembered for his work on [[Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period]] and the [[Dictionary of Ming Biography]].<ref name="auto"/> In 1980, he delivered the [[Morrison Lecture]] on "The Great Wall of China: Keeping Out or Keeping In?" <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ciw.anu.edu.au/events/morrison-lectures#acton-tabs-link--qt-morrison_lectures_qtabs-ui-tabs2|title=The George E. Morrison Lectures in Ethnology - Australian Centre on China in the World - ANU|website=ciw.anu.edu.au}}</ref> After retirement in New Jersey, he died during a trip to China.<ref name="auto"/> [[William Theodore de Bary]]'s obituary judged that "It is not too much to say that his name thereby became immortalized in the annals of Western Sinology as the co-compiler of two of the most monumental works of sinological scholarship that have ever been produced in this country."<ref>De Bary, W. (1986). Chao-ying Fang (1908–1985). The Journal of Asian Studies, 45(5), 1127-1127. doi:10.1017/S0021911800127494</ref>
Receiving his undergraduate degree from [[Yenching University]] where he studied under [[William Hung (sinologist)]], he would later became assistant librarian there (1930–32).<ref name="auto">{{Cite journal|last=Beal|first=Edwin G.|date=1985|title=Fang Chao-ying|journal=Journal of East Asian Libraries| url=https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1398&context=jeal}}</ref> There, he met [[Tu Lien-che]], who would become his wife and lifelong collaborator. The pair travelled to the United States for Fang's study at [[Harvard University]], where he also worked in the Chinese-Japanese Library, before becoming assistant to the [[Library of Congress]] Orientalia librarian, [[Arthur W. Hummel, Sr.]] His later career was spent in university institutions: University of California Berkeley beginning in 1955, at the [[Australian National University]] (1961–63) and from 1963 at [[Columbia University]]. With Tu, he is best-remembered for his work on [[Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period]] and the [[Dictionary of Ming Biography]].<ref name="auto"/> In 1980, he delivered the [[Morrison Lecture]] on "The Great Wall of China: Keeping Out or Keeping In?" <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ciw.anu.edu.au/events/morrison-lectures#acton-tabs-link--qt-morrison_lectures_qtabs-ui-tabs2|title=The George E. Morrison Lectures in Ethnology - Australian Centre on China in the World - ANU|website=ciw.anu.edu.au}}</ref> After retirement in New Jersey, he died during a trip to China.<ref name="auto"/> [[William Theodore de Bary]]'s obituary judged that "It is not too much to say that his name thereby became immortalized in the annals of Western Sinology as the co-compiler of two of the most monumental works of sinological scholarship that have ever been produced in this country."<ref>De Bary, W. (1986). Chao-ying Fang (1908–1985). The Journal of Asian Studies, 45(5), 1127-1127. doi:10.1017/S0021911800127494</ref>


==Selected publications==
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==References==

* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JWpF-dObxW8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Dictionary of Ming Biography]''
* ---, Julia Ching, translate and ed., [https://archive.org/details/recordsofmingsch00huan Huang, Zongxi, 1610-1695 The records of Ming scholars] [[Internet Archive]]

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== References==
* {{citation|url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1985/05/03/212396.html?pageNumber=110 |title = Fang Chaoying, Expert on Chinese Dynasties|last=Obituary|journal = New York Times| date = 3 May 1985}}
* {{citation|first= Edwin|last= Beal|journal = Journal of East Asian Libraries|title= Fang Chaoying|year= 1985|volume=1985|number= 77|url= https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal/vol1985/iss77/15?utm_source=scholarsarchive.byu.edu%2Fjeal%2Fvol1985%2Fiss77%2F15&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages}}
* de Bary, William Theodore, Obituary: Chao-ying Fang (1908–1985), Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 45, no. 5, November 1986, p. 1127.
* {{citation |last =Spence|first= Jonathan | chapter = | pages =350–354| title = Fang Chao-Ying | location = New York| publisher =Norton | year =1992 | isbn = 0393033554|url= https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chinese_Roundabout/M7LAH8ggQvAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Chao-ying}}
* {{citation|last= Rickett|first= W. A. |year= 1976| title= (Review) L. Carrington Goodrich and Chao-ying Fang, eds. Dictionary of Ming Biography,1368-1644|journal = The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science|volume= 428|number= 1|pages= 150–151 |doi= 10.1177/000271627642800130|s2cid= 145318006 }}
* C. K. Yang. (1946). (Review) Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period., by Arthur W. Hummel. Pacific Affairs, 19(1), 109–112. https://doi.org/10.2307/2752226
* {{cite encyclopedia | first= Harriet| last =Zurndorfer| pages =86–109| title = Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010|editor-last=Dryburgh|editor-first=M|chapter = How to Write a Woman’s Life into and out of History: Wang Zhaoyuan (1763–1851) and Biographical Study in Republican China | location = London| publisher = Palgrave| year =2013 | isbn = 978-1-349-47467-7|doi=10.1057/9781137368577_4
}}

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Revision as of 19:00, 4 September 2022

房兆楹

Fang Chao-ying 房兆楹 (pinyin: Fang Zhaoying) (1908–1985) was a China-born American bibliographer and historian of China. who was born in Tianjin best known for the contributions he and his wife, Tu Lien-che made to the biographical dictionaries Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1943) and Ming Biographical Dictionary (1976). [1] He and spent his professional career primarily at libraries and universities in the United States.[2]


Columbia University in 1985 conferred degrees of Doctor of Humane Letters upon Mr. and Mrs. Fang.[3]

Education and early career

BS Yenching University 1928, Wenhua College of Library Science (Boone Library School), in Wuchang, China, in 1932, then came to study at Harvard University, where he also worked at the Harvard-Yenching Library before becoming chief assistant to Arthur W. Hummel at the Orientalia Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.[4] He became an American citizen in 1958.[1]


While an assistant librarian at Yenching University, Fang met his future wife, Tu Lienche. Together, the couple researched and wrote half of the articles in the Ming Biographical Dictionary.[4]

Receiving his undergraduate degree from Yenching University where he studied under William Hung (sinologist), he would later became assistant librarian there (1930–32).[5] There, he met Tu Lien-che, who would become his wife and lifelong collaborator. The pair travelled to the United States for Fang's study at Harvard University, where he also worked in the Chinese-Japanese Library, before becoming assistant to the Library of Congress Orientalia librarian, Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. His later career was spent in university institutions: University of California Berkeley beginning in 1955, at the Australian National University (1961–63) and from 1963 at Columbia University. With Tu, he is best-remembered for his work on Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period and the Dictionary of Ming Biography.[5] In 1980, he delivered the Morrison Lecture on "The Great Wall of China: Keeping Out or Keeping In?" [6] After retirement in New Jersey, he died during a trip to China.[5] William Theodore de Bary's obituary judged that "It is not too much to say that his name thereby became immortalized in the annals of Western Sinology as the co-compiler of two of the most monumental works of sinological scholarship that have ever been produced in this country."[7]

Selected publications

References

  • Obituary (3 May 1985), "Fang Chaoying, Expert on Chinese Dynasties", New York Times
  • Beal, Edwin (1985), "Fang Chaoying", Journal of East Asian Libraries, 1985 (77)
  • de Bary, William Theodore, Obituary: Chao-ying Fang (1908–1985), Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 45, no. 5, November 1986, p. 1127.
  • Spence, Jonathan (1992), Fang Chao-Ying, New York: Norton, pp. 350–354, ISBN 0393033554
  • Rickett, W. A. (1976), "(Review) L. Carrington Goodrich and Chao-ying Fang, eds. Dictionary of Ming Biography,1368-1644", The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 428 (1): 150–151, doi:10.1177/000271627642800130, S2CID 145318006
  • C. K. Yang. (1946). (Review) Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period., by Arthur W. Hummel. Pacific Affairs, 19(1), 109–112. https://doi.org/10.2307/2752226
  • Zurndorfer, Harriet (2013). "How to Write a Woman's Life into and out of History: Wang Zhaoyuan (1763–1851) and Biographical Study in Republican China". In Dryburgh, M (ed.). Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010. London: Palgrave. pp. 86–109. doi:10.1057/9781137368577_4. ISBN 978-1-349-47467-7.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Obituary (1985).
  2. ^ "Fang Collection". National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Beal (1985), p. 75. sfnp error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFBeal1985 (help)
  4. ^ a b Beal (1985), p. 72. sfnp error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFBeal1985 (help)
  5. ^ a b c Beal, Edwin G. (1985). "Fang Chao-ying". Journal of East Asian Libraries.
  6. ^ "The George E. Morrison Lectures in Ethnology - Australian Centre on China in the World - ANU". ciw.anu.edu.au.
  7. ^ De Bary, W. (1986). Chao-ying Fang (1908–1985). The Journal of Asian Studies, 45(5), 1127-1127. doi:10.1017/S0021911800127494


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