Yang Lien-sheng

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang.
Yang Lien-sheng
Born(1914-07-26)July 26, 1914
Baoding, Hebei Province, Republic of China
DiedNovember 16, 1990(1990-11-16) (aged 76)
Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materTsinghua University (B.A.)
Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.)
Scientific career
InstitutionsHarvard University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese楊聯陞
Simplified Chinese杨联升
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYáng Liánshēng
Wade–GilesYang2 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]

  1. ^ "Yang Lien-sheng," History of the Department, 1940-1950, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Harvard University) [1]