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unusual facts about Yenching


Yenching

Beijing ("Yenching" is an older, alternative name of the city)


Alexander von Staël-Holstein

Two Lamaistic pantheons, edited with introduction and indexes by Walter Eugene Clark from materials collected by the late Baron A. von Staël-Holstein, Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series 3 and 4, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1937

Edwin Cranston

His dissertation, a translation of and commentary on the Izumi Shikibu diary, was published in 1969 in the Harvard-Yenching Monograph series as The Izumi Shikibu Diary: A Romance of the Heian Court and remains the authoritative English version.

James Munro Bertram

During the Peking visit he was re-introduced to his old friends including his former room-mate at Yenching, now Deputy Foreign Minister, Huang Hua and Rewi Alley.

Su fei-erh

Later on these men were settled between the Sung capital of Kaifeng and Yenching (modern day Beijing).

Tu Weiming

Tu was Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University (1999–2010).

Wu Ningkun

In 1952, after one year at Yenching University, Wu was transferred to Nankai University, Tianjin, where he met his wife, Li Yikai.


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