Fang Chao-ying

In this Chinese name, the family name is Fang.

Fang Chao-ying (Chinese: 房兆楹; pinyin: Fáng zhàoyíng; 1908–1985) was a Chinese-born American Sinologist, bibliographer, and historian of China 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 Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368–1644 (1976). He spent his professional career primarily at libraries and universities in the United States.

Columbia University in 1985 conferred degrees of Doctor of Humane Letters upon Mr. and Mrs. Fang. He became an American citizen in 1958.

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