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Chung-Chang Shen
Chung-Chang Shen (13 July 190519 March 1987) was a Chinese_people, Chinese Linguistics, linguist, Folklore studies, folklorist, Ethnomusicology, ethnomusicologist, and antiquarian best known for rescuing the Juyan Han Bamboo and wooden slips, wooden slips during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Early life Chung-Chang Shen was born in Suzhou with ancestral roots in Wuxing District, Wuxing, Zhejiang, China. He studied at the Tangshan Jiaotong University (now Southwest Jiaotong University) and at Peking University, where he received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy. He fostered connections with scholars in many different academic fields. Among them were foreign scholars including Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Richard Wilhelm (sinologist), Richard Wilhelm, Vincenz Hundhausen, and Sven Hedin, as well as Chinese scholars such as Chen Yinke, Hu Shih, Liu Tianhua, Liu Bannong, Jin Kemu, Fu Ssu-nien, Yuen Ren Chao, and Xu Zhimo. Juyan Han wooden slips From 1933 to 1937, Chung-Chang Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shěn (surname)
Shěn is the Mandarin Hanyu pinyin romanization of Chinese, romanization of the Chinese surname . Shen is the 14th surname in the Song dynasty, Song-era ''Hundred Family Surnames'' also colloquially known as the "common Chinese person" in text & sentences. Ranking 沈 as 14th during the Song Dynasty was given by prominence of the family and not the numerical count of members of the family at that time. Romanisation 沈 is romanised as Sum, Sem, Sam, Sham, or Shum in Cantonese; Sim in Hokkien & Teochew Min, Teochew; Shim(심) in Hakka and in Korean language, Korean; and Thẩm/Trầm in Vietnamese language, Vietnamese. The family name can also be written as "Shin" or "Sin" as well. Less commonly, the same character can also be pronounced Zhen (surname), Zhen, which indicates a different origin from Shen.Tan, Thomas Tsu-wee. ''Your Chinese Roots''. . Distribution Shen was the list of common Chinese surnames, 52nd-most-common surname in the China, People's Republic of China (Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |