Hwang-cherng Gong is a research fellow of Academia Sinica and teaches at the National Cheng Chi University in Taiwan. In 1996-1997, he was a Visiting Professor at UC-Berkeley and in the summer of 1997, he was invited to teach a course on Old Chinese and Proto-Sino-Tibetan at the LSA Linguistic Institute held at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1974. His research interests include the reconstruction of Old Chinese and Proto-Sino-Tibetan phonological systems, and the study of Tangut, a deceased Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northwest China in the 12th century. He has won numerous national awards from the National Science Council of the Republic of China. In 2001, he was elected to honorary membership in the Linguistic Society of America and in 2002, he was elected an academician of Academia Sinica. His recent publications include Collected Papers on Tangut Philology and Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica).

Reconstructions of Old Chinese and Proto-Sino-Tibetan | LSA.120
MW 10:10-11:50
Three Week Course | First Session