Chia-ying Yeh
Chia-ying Yeh | |||||||||
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叶嘉莹 | |||||||||
Chia-ying Yeh's wedding photo (1948) | |||||||||
| Born | Florence Chia-ying Yeh July 2, 1924 | ||||||||
| Died | November 24, 2024 (aged 100) | ||||||||
| Other names | Ye Jiaying, Jialing, Chia-ying Yeh Chao, Chia-ying Chao-Yeh | ||||||||
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| Alma mater | Fu Jen Catholic University (Beijing) | ||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Gu Sui | ||||||||
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| Discipline | Chinese literature | ||||||||
| Sub-discipline | Classical Chinese literature | ||||||||
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| Notable students | Pai Hsien-yung, Chen Yingzhen, Xi Murong, Jiang Xun | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 葉嘉瑩 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 叶嘉莹 | ||||||||
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| Jialing | |||||||||
| Chinese | 迦陵 | ||||||||
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Florence Chia-ying Yeh FRSC (July 2, 1924 – November 24, 2024), also known as Ye Jiaying (simplified Chinese: 叶嘉莹; traditional Chinese: 葉嘉瑩), Jialing (迦陵), and by her married name Chia-ying Yeh Chao, was a Chinese-born Taiwanese-Canadian poet and sinologist. She was a scholar of classical Chinese poetry. Yeh taught for 20 years at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and was a professor emerita from her retirement in 1989. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. After retiring from UBC, she taught at Nankai University in Tianjin, where she was the founding Director of the Institute of Chinese Classical Culture.