George A. Kennedy

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George Alexander Kennedy (born May 17, 1901 in Moganshan , Zhejiang Province , China, † August 15, 1960 at sea between Yokohama and San Francisco ) was an American sinologist.

Life

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

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

Works

  • A Minimum Vocabulary in Modern Chinese . The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 21, No. 8, 1937, pp. 587-592
  • Review: A Course of Colloquial Chinese. By SN Usoff . Pacific Affairs, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1938, pp. 410-414
  • The role of the 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, Vol. 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, AD 1785 . Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Volume 5, No. 3/4, 1941, pp. 392-400
  • Dating of Chinese Dynasties and Reigns . Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 61, No. 4, 1941, pp. 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, Vol. 62, No. 2, 1942, pp. 145-147
  • Simple Chinese Stories. New Haven, 1943
  • Dates in Giles Biographical Dictionary . Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 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 Commonest Chinese Terms. By Ronald Hall and Neville Whymant . Artibus Asiae, Volume 13, No. 1/2, 1950, pp. 111-112
  • Voiced Gutturals in Tangsic . Language, 28, No. 4, 1952, pp. 457-464
  • Another note on 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, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1953, pp. 345-347
  • Two Tone Patterns in Tangsic . Language, 29, No. 3, 1953, pp. 367-373
  • 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, Vol. 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, Vol. 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

literature

  • Tien-yi Li: Selected Works of George A. Kennedy, New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, 1964

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personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, George A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kennedy, George Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Moganshan , Zhejiang Province , China
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1960
Place of death San Francisco