Bo Bing ( zh, s=薄冰, t=薄冰, p=Bó Bīng; born 1921 in

Ying County Ying County or Yingxian () is a county in the north of Shanxi province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Shuozhou. Ying County is best known for the Pagoda of Fogong Temple, which is built in 1056 ...

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; died August 17, 2013, in

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) was a Chinese English grammar academic and a professor at the

Beijing Foreign Studies University Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU; ) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education. The university is part of Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction. The Internation ...

. Bo was best known for his series of textbooks on English grammar for English learners.

Career

Bo graduated from the department of foreign languages at the then-National Chekiang University in 1947. He started his English teaching career at Shanghai Occupational School, teaching until 1949, when he returned to his studies at the North China Evolution University until 1950. He joined the English department at the Beijing Foreign Language Institute in 1950, and remained with the institute till his death. Bo enjoyed a special allowance from the

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from 1992. In 1998, Kaiming Press published ''Bo Bing English Grammar'', the first of his series of textbooks on English grammar. Due to unauthorized distribution of these books, Bo sued a number of publishers.

Death

Bo died in

on August 17, 2013, due to respiratory failure.

References

1921 births 2013 deaths Educators from Shanxi People from Ying County Writers from Shanxi Academic staff of Beijing Foreign Studies University 20th-century Chinese translators {{China-translator-stub