Yang Lien-sheng

Yang Lien-sheng
楊聯陞
Born	(1914-07-26)July 26, 1914 Baoding, Hebei Province, Republic of China
Died	November 16, 1990(1990-11-16) (aged 76) Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	Tsinghua University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Sinology
Institutions	Harvard University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	楊聯陞
Simplified Chinese	杨联升
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yáng Liánshēng Wade–Giles Yang2 Lien2-sheng1 IPA [jǎŋ ljɛ̌n.ʂə́ŋ]

Yang Lien-sheng (Chinese: 楊聯陞; July 26, 1914 – November 16, 1990) who often wrote under the name L.S. Yang, was a Chinese-American sinologist and professor at Harvard University. He was the first full-time historian of China at Harvard and a prolific scholar specializing in China's economic history.^[1]