Who are the world's leading figures in linguistics?

Zhao Yuanren (1892 11.3-1982 2.24), Han Chinese, with the characters Xuanzhong and Yizhong, was born in Tianjin, Jiangsu Province, and was appointed as a researcher at the Institute of Historical and Linguistic Research of the Academia Sinica at the end of June, 1929, where he was also a lecturer at the Department of Chinese Literature of Tsinghua, teaching courses such as "phonetics". At the same time, he was also a lecturer in the Department of Chinese Literature at Tsinghua University, where he taught courses on phonetics, etc. He has been teaching in the United States since 1938. He was a pioneer of modern Chinese language and modern musicology.

Lu Shuxiang (1904-1998), a native of Danyang City, Jiangsu Province, graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Southeast University (now Nanjing University) in 1926, and went to England in 1936, where he successively studied at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Oxford and at the University of London's Library Department. After returning to China in 1938, he became an associate professor at the Department of Literature and History of Yunnan University, and later a researcher at the Institute of Chinese Culture of the West China Concordia University, a researcher at the Institute of Chinese Culture of Jinling University, a professor at the Department of Chinese Language of the Central University, and an editor of the Kaoming Bookstore.

After the liberation, he was a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (which was reorganized under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in 1977), a member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the CAS (academician), and the vice-director, director and honorary director of the Institute of Linguistics from 1952.

Major Works

Mr. Lu Shuxiang's research focuses on Chinese grammar. His major works include Essentials of Chinese Grammar, Addresses on Grammar and Rhetoric (co-authored with Zhu Dexi), Problems in Analyzing Chinese Grammar, and Collected Essays on Chinese Grammar (Updated Edition).

Mr. Lu Shuxiang took part in writing and reviewing the Speech on Modern Chinese Grammar, and directly participated in the formulation of the "Provisional Grammar System for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language". Mr. Lu Shuxiang was the editor-in-chief of the most influential dictionary in China, the Modern Chinese Dictionary, and the editor-in-chief of the first grammar dictionary in China, the Eight Hundred Words of Modern Chinese.