Yi Tso-lin

Yi Tso -lin (also known as Yi Chien -lou, born July 19, 1897 in Nantong, China, † March 29, 1945 in Rugao, China), farm name Yi Chien Lou, was a linguist, educator and philanthropist in China. He made important contributions to the study of phonetics, phonology and grammar of modern Chinese.

Life

He was considered a good student and studied until 1917 at Tungchou Teachers' College, China's first private training school for teachers. Subsequently he worked for a book publisher and then for the Shanghai National Language College (上海 国语 专修 学校). From a preparatory committee for an institution which should support a unified Chinese language (国语 统一 筹备 委员会), he was in 1923, along with ten others, nationally known scientists, including Lin Yutang and Yuen Ren Chao, the Committee for the implementation of China in Western languages ​​assigned (国语 罗马 字母 拼音 研究 委员会). In this capacity, he published in 1924 a pioneering grammar of modern Chinese language. He then worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools, later he became inspector of schools in the province of Jiangsu.

For much of his life he sought the education of the children of poorer population groups, even during the Japanese occupation. He died before the end of the Second World War.

Works

His most important publications are the 1920 published lectures on Chinese phonetics [国 音 学 讲义] and the work published in 1924 Four Lectures on Chinese Grammar [国语 文法 四 讲].

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