Florence Chia-ying Yeh | |||||||||
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叶嘉莹 | |||||||||
 Chia-ying Yeh's wedding photo (1948) | |||||||||
| Born | July 2, 1924 | ||||||||
| Nationality |  Republic of China Canada | ||||||||
| Other names | Ye Jiaying, Jialing, Chia-ying Yeh Chao, Chia-ying Chao-Yeh | ||||||||
| Academic background | |||||||||
| Alma mater | Fu Jen Catholic University (Beijing) | ||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Gu Sui | ||||||||
| Academic work | |||||||||
| Discipline | Chinese literature | ||||||||
| Sub-discipline | Classical Chinese literature | ||||||||
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| Notable students | Pai Hsien-yung, Chen Yingzhen, Xi Murong, Jiang Xun | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| 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 (born July 2, 1924), also known as Ye Jiaying (Chinese: 葉嘉瑩), Jialing (迦陵), and by her married name Chia-ying Yeh Chao, is a Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist.[1] She was a scholar of classical Chinese poetry. She taught for twenty years at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and has been Professor Emerita since her retirement in 1989. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[2] After retiring from UBC, she has been teaching at Nankai University in Tianjin where she is 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 22 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.