About Ting Pang-hsin
Lived 1936 – 2023 (aged 86–87). Ting Pang-hsin was a Taiwanese linguist.
Ting Pang-hsin (; 28 November 1936 – 30 January 2023) was a Chinese linguist, and an academician of the Academia Sinica.
Biography Ting was born in Ju-kao County (Rugao County), Kiangsu (Jiangsu), on 28 November 1936. After the defeat of the Kuomintang by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, Ting relocated to Taiwan. He attended National Taiwan University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1959 and master's degree in 1963 both in Chinese literature. Ting was In 1996, he was chosen as dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a post he kept until 2004. He was succeeded by Mei Tsu-lin.
Ting died in California on 30 January 2023, at the age of 86.
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Honours and awards 1986 Member of the Academia Sinica 2000 Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America
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