Pan Wuyun

Pan Wùyún (Chinese: 潘悟云; pinyin: Pān Wùyún, born March 1943 in Rui'an, China)^[1] is a leading Chinese linguist and specialist in historical Chinese phonology.

Career

Pan Wùyún earned his doctorate degree in 1982 from Fudan University in Shanghai. In 1993 he moved from the College of Education at the Pedagogical University in Shanghai, Wenzhou, where he supervised graduate students in Modern Chinese trade. In 1999 he became deputy chairman of the Association of Scientists of Shanghai and Chairman of the Language Research Institute of the Association. Since the mid-1980s, he taught the University of Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Oslo, at the City University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Research areas

The strong point of Pan Wùyún's research and teaching is the historical phonology of Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, and Chinese dialectology.^[1]

Works

• Dongfang Wenhua yǔyán yǔ: Dunhuang zīliào 东方语言与文化:敦煌资料. Dongfang chūbǎn zhongxin 东方出版中心, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-80627-757-9.
• Hànyǔ lìshǐ yīnyùnxué "汉语历史音韵学". Shànghǎi Jiaoyu chūbǎnshè 上海教育出版社 2000, ISBN 7-5320-6820-X.
• Pan Wùyún zìxuǎnjí "潘悟云自选集" Anhui Jiaoyu chūbǎnshè 安徽教育出版社, Hefei, 2002, ISBN 7-5336-2863-2.

Translations

• Yuánshǐ Hànyǔ yǔ zàngyǔ "原始汉语与汉藏语" ( Nicholas C. Bodman : Proto-Chinese and Sino-Tibetan), Zhonghua Shuju中华书局, Beijing 1995, ISBN 7-101-00924-7 (with Feng Zheng冯蒸).
• Shànggǔ Hànyǔ de fǔyīn xìtǒng上古汉语的辅音系统. Zhonghua Shuju中华书局, Beijing 1999, ISBN 7-101-02225-1 ( Edwin G. Pulleyblank : The consonantal system of Old Chinese, together with Xu Wénkān徐文堪).
• Han wén diǎn汉文典. Shànghǎi císhū chūbǎnshè上海辞书出版社1997, ISBN 7-5326-0214-1 (Bernhard Karlgren: Grammata Serica).

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