George A. Kennedy (sinologist)

George Alexander Kennedy ( born May 17, 1901 in Moganshan, Zhejiang province, China, † August 15 1960 in San Francisco) was an American sinologist.

Life

Kennedy was born in 1901 in Moganshan莫干山, Zhejiang Province of the missionary couple Alexander and Ada Kennedy. After the death of his father and his brother Fred, he left China in 1918 and continued his education at Wooster College. From 1922 to 1925 he studied theology, first at Western Theological Seminary and later at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. This period also his friendship with Luther Carrington Goodrich. After Kennedy worked returned to China in 1926 and for several years as an English and Chinese teachers in Shanghai, he began in 1932 his Sinology studies in Berlin, where he made his thesis under Otto Franke and Erich Haenisch.

1937 Kennedy received his doctorate with a thesis on the role of confession in Chinese Law ( PhD supervisor was Haenisch ). Kennedy worked in the first year of his return to America as an assistant under Arthur Hummel in the Asian Division of the Library of Congress and wrote 1934/1935 for Hummel 's Biographical Dictionary of Qing Dynasty 72 entries. In 1935, Kennedy worked in various positions at Yale University.

Works

  • A Minimum Vocabulary in Modern Chinese. The Modern Language Journal, Volume 21, No. 8, 1937, pp. 587-592
  • Review: A Course of Colloquial Chinese. By S. N. Usoff. Pacific Affairs, Volume 11, No. 3, 1938, pp. 410-414
  • The role of confession in Chinese law. Berlin, 1939
  • Metrical ' Irregularity ' in The Shih ching. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Volume 4, No. 3 /4, 1939, pp. 284-296
  • A Study of the Particle yen. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 60, No. 1, 1940, pp. 1-22, No. 2, pp. 193-207
  • Review: An Album of Chinese Bamboos; a Study of a Set of Ink - Bamboo Drawings, A.D. In 1785. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Volume 5, No. 3 /4, 1941, p 392-400
  • Dating of Chinese Dynasties and Reigns. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 61, No. 4, 1941, p 285-286
  • Interpretation of the Ch'un - Ch'iu. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 62, No. 1, 1942, pp. 40-48
  • Review: Chinese Reader for Beginners. By Shau Wing Chan. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 62, No. 2, 1942, pp. 145-147
  • Simple Chinese Stories. New Haven, 1943
  • Dates in Giles Biographical Dictionary. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 70, No. 3, pp. 188-189
  • Equation no. 5: (Chinese fusion - words). Journal of the American Oriental Society, 67, No. 1, pp. 56-59
  • Review: The 3000 Chinese commonest term. By Ronald Hall and Neville Whymant. Artibus Asiae, Volume 13, No. 1/2, 1950, pp. 111-112
  • Voiced guttural in Tangsic. Language, 28, No. 4, 1952, pp. 457-464
  • Another note on the yen. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 16, No. 1/2, 1953, pp. 226-236
  • Review: Biographies of Meng Hao -jan. Translated and Annotated by Hans Frankel. The Far Eastern Quarterly, Volume 12, No. 3, 1953, pp. 345-347
  • ZH Guide: An Introduction to Sinology. New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, 1953
  • Review: Han Shih Wai Chuan (Han Ying 's Illustrations of the Didactic Application of the Classic of Songs ). Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 74, No. 4, 1954, pp. 279-280
  • Minimum Vocabularies of Written Chinese. Yale University, 1954
  • Review: Studies in Chinese Thought. Edited by Arthur F. Wright. The Far Eastern Quarterly, Volume 14, No. 3, 1955, pp. 406-408
  • Review: Dai Kanwa jiten [ The Great Chinese - Japanese Dictionary ]. The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 16, No. 2, 1957, pp. 306-307
  • Fenollosa, Pound, and the Chinese Character. Yak Literary Magazine, 126, No. 5, 1958, pp. 26-36
  • A note on Ode 220 ​​in Studia Serica Bernhard Karlgren Dedicata, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1959
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