![]() ![]() In the 1920's and has been an active participant in a number of major projects, both in China and in America, through the He laid the foundations of modern linguistics in China Music, Chinese grammar, Chinese logic, and theoretical linguistics. Of his long career as a teacher, he has taught physics, mathematics, philosophy, the Chinese language, the history of Chinese But Chao moves easily and articulately in both. Of life and thought considered completely foreign to the other. In both of the two cultures-science and humanism-, each of which had become by the middle of the twentieth century a way I know of no other person who participates so readily Or "linguist" or "musician" is quite misleading only "scholar" will do. The breadth of his interests is almost overwhelming. Only American science and philosophy but American customs as well. ![]() ![]() He wanted to learn everything about it, not He was stimulated by it in a way he had not been stimulated in China. Had intended to stay only four years on that first visit, he actually stayed for ten years. The difference between the secure world of familyĪnd friends in his early years and the highly individualistic world of his American college years was profound. Training followed by the best of the modern Western scientific training. And so he benefited in a way that few others had done before him from the best of the traditional philosophical Chinese His early education was in the traditional mold, he was among the very first Chinese to receive his advanced education inĪmerica. To show a willingness to look toward the West in a way that had been completely impossible only a short time before. It was a time when some of the people of this ancient nation were beginning He was born at a critical time in China's history. In the future physicist, mathematician, linguist, composer, translator, and world citizen. Physical surroundings, and his linguistic surroundings all enveloped his consciousness with the thoroughness that became manifest Chao had always been keenly aware of and alive to everything in the world about him. And so it came about that they settled in Berkeley where they remain to this day, thirty years later.įrom his very earliest years Y.R. Up stakes from Harvard and had traveled across the continent with the aim of proceeding to China to stay. Chao to return to their native land as they had planned. In China in 1947 made it impossible for Buwei and Y.R. It was a happy circumstance for linguists and other scholars at the University of California, Berkeley, when the situation The legal agreement with Yuen Ren Chao requires that he be notified of the request and allowed thirty days in which Should include identification of the specific passages to be quoted, anticipated use of the passages, and identification of Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, 486 Library, and The manuscript may be quoted for publication without the written permission of the Director of The Bancroft Library of the Including the right to publish, are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California Berkeley. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. China Scholars Series Chinese linguist, phonologist, composer and author, Yuen Ren Chao With an Introduction by Mary Haas An Interview Conducted by Rosemany Levenson The Bancroft LibraryĪll uses of this manuscript are covered by a legal agreement between the Regents of the University of California and Yuen ![]()
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