Luo Changpei

Luo Changpei (Chinese: 羅常培; Wade–Giles: Lo Ch'ang-p'ei; 9 August 1899 – 13 December 1958) was a Chinese linguist. He made important contributions to the study of historical Chinese phonology. He was also a pioneer of the modern studies of Chinese dialects and of non-Chinese languages in China.

Luo Changpei
罗常培
Born(1899-08-09)9 August 1899
Died13 December 1958(1958-12-13) (aged 59)
Alma materPeking University
Scientific career
FieldsChinese linguistics
InstitutionsPeking University
Notable studentsMichael Halliday
David Hawkes
Yang Naisi
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese羅常培
Simplified Chinese罗常培

Born into a Manchu family, he graduated from the Peking University. Besides spending some years in the United States as a visiting scholar, he spent most of his academic life at Peking University. Among his students there were the British scholars Michael Halliday and David Hawkes. In 1929, along with Y.R. Chao and Li Fang-kuei, he became a researcher at the Institute of History and Philology (歷史語言研究所) of Academia Sinica (then located at Nanjing). He also served as director of the Institute of Linguistics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences until his death in 1958.

Luo also co-authored a book on the 'Phags-pa script with Cai Meibiao (Chinese: 蔡美彪).

Bibliography

With Zhou Zumo (Chinese: 周租護)

  • 1958. Han Wei Jin Nanbeichao yunbu yanbian yanjiu 漢魏晉南北朝頸部演變研究. Peking. 科學出版社

With Cai Meibiao (Chinese: 蔡美彪)

  • 1959. Basibazi yu Yuandai Hanyu [Ziliao Huibian] 八思巴字與元代漢語[資料彙編]. Beijing : Kexue Chubanshe. Revised edition, 2004.

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