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) | ||||||||
| Nationality | Taiwanese, Canadian | ||||||||
| 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.[1] 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.[2] After retiring from UBC, she taught at Nankai University in Tianjin, where she was the founding Director of the Institute of Chinese Classical Culture.
- ^ Pan Caixia (潘彩霞) (2002). 叶嘉莹：诗词的女儿，风雅的先生 [Ye Jiaying: the Daughter of Poetry and the Elegant Doctor]. Celebrities' Biographies (in Chinese). 600. Zhengzhou, Henan: Henan Literature and Art Publishing House: 4–10. ISSN 1002-6282.
- ^ "Florence Chia-ying Yeh" (PDF). University of British Columbia. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2015.