Yang Lien-sheng
Yang Lien-sheng | |||||||||||
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| 楊聯陞 | |||||||||||
| Born | July 26, 1914 | ||||||||||
| Died | November 16, 1990 (aged 76) Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | Tsinghua University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) | ||||||||||
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| Fields | Sinology | ||||||||||
| Institutions | Harvard University | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊聯陞 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杨联升 | ||||||||||
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Yang Lien-sheng (Chinese: 楊聯陞; July 26, 1914 – November 16, 1990) who often wrote under the name L.S. Yang, was a Chinese-American sinologist and professor at Harvard University. He was the first full-time historian of China at Harvard and a prolific scholar specializing in China's economic history.