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Edwin G. Pulleyblank

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Edwin G. Pulleyblank
FRSC
Born(1922-08-07)August 7, 1922
Calgary, Alberta,Canada
DiedApril 13, 2013(2013-04-13)(aged 90)
Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada
EducationUniversity of Alberta(B.A.)
SOAS, University of London(Ph.D.)
University of Cambridge(M.A.)
SpousesWinona Relyea(1946–76, her death)
Pan Yihong(2002–13, his death)
Children3
Scientific career
FieldsChinese linguistics, history
InstitutionsSOAS, University of London
Cambridge University
University of British Columbia
Doctoral advisorWalter Simon
Chinese name
ChineseBồ lập bổn

Edwin George "Ted" PulleyblankFRSC(August 7, 1922 – April 13, 2013) was a Canadiansinologist.He was a professor who taught at theUniversity of British Columbia.[1][2]He was known for his studies of the historicalphonologyofChinese.

Life and career[edit]

Edwin G. "Ted" Pulleyblank was born on August 7, 1922, inCalgary, Alberta,Canada. His father, William George Edwin Pulleyblank, was a teacher ofmathematicswho later became a school vice-principal, and his mother, Ruth Pulleyblank, had also been a teacher. Pulleyblank was an avid student with a bright intellect and an excellent memory for details, and taught himselfAncient Greekwhile in high school.[3]He matriculated at theUniversity of Albertain 1939 on an Alberta provincial government scholarship, and majored in theLatin and Greek Classicswhile also tutoring other students in math andphysicsin his spare time.[3]

Pulleyblank graduated in 1942 at the height ofWorld War II.Noticing his aptitude for both mathematics and foreign languages, one of Pulleyblank's professors offered him a chance to do "secret war work", which he accepted. On February 22, 1943 Pulleyblank joined the Examination Unit in Ottawa. This Unit was the civilian codebreaking unit of the Canadian Government. On May 13, 1943 Pulleyblank was sent toEnglandto train with the Government Code and Cipher School atBletchley Park.He returned to Canada and on December 12, 1943 joined the Japanese Diplomatic Section of the Examination Unit,[4]and later began studyingChineseatCarleton University.[5]

In 1946, Pulleyblank received a Chinese national government scholarship to study Chinese at theSchool of African and Oriental Studies, University of London,where he stayed for two years. In 1948, the SOAS made Pulleyblank a lecturer inClassical Chinese,even though he would later recall that his command of Japanese was at that time still better than his Chinese. He taught courses while pursuing doctoral studies under the German sinologistWalter Simon,and received aPh.D.in 1951 for a dissertation entitled "The Background and Early Life ofAn Lu-shan".[6]

Pulleyblank spent a year doing research at libraries inTokyoandKyoto, Japan,and also did additional studies in Chinese atCambridge University,receiving anM.A.in 1953. In 1953, at only 31 years old, Pulleyblank was given the position of Chair of Chinese at Cambridge, which he held for 13 years. Pulleyblank and his wife wanted to return to North America, and so in 1966 he left Cambridge to join the Asian Studies faculty at theUniversity of British Columbia,where he remained until his retirement in 1987.[7]

Selected works[edit]

  • The Background of the Rebellion of An Lu-shan,London, UK: Oxford University Press. 1955.
  • Chinese History and World History: An inaugural lecture,Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1955.
  • Historians of China and Japan,Edited with W.G. Beasley. London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1961.[8]
  • "The Consonantal System of Old Chinese",Asia Major9(1962):1962/1962-58.PDF 58–144,1962/1962-206.pdf 206–265Archived2019-12-17 at theWayback Machine.
  • Pulleyblank, E. G., 1963. ‘An interpretation of the vowel systems of Old Chinese and of Written Burmese’, Asia Major (new series) 10(2), 200–221.
  • Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1965). ‘The transcription of Sanskrit k and kh in Chinese.’ Asia Major (New Series) 11: 199–210.
  • "Late Middle Chinese, Part I"Archived2016-03-04 at theWayback Machine,Asia Major15(1970): 197–239.
  • "Late Middle Chinese, Part II"Archived2021-12-18 at theWayback Machine,Asia Major16(1971): 121–166.
  • Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1973). ‘Some new hypotheses concerning word families in Chinese.’ Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1.1: 111–125.
  • Pulleyblank, Edwin G. 1981. "Han China in Central Asia."The International Historical Review3.2:278-286. (Also in Pulleyblank 2002, §XI).
  • Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1983a). "The Chinese and their neighbors in prehistoric and early historic times." The origins of Chinese civilization, ed. David N. Keightley, 411–466. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1983b). "Stages in the transcription of Indian words in Chinese from Han to Tang." Sprachen des Buddhismus in Zentralasien, ed. Klaus Rohrborn & Wolfgang Veenker, 73-102. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
  • Middle Chinese: A Study in Historical Phonology,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: UBC Press. 1984.ISBN978-0-7748-0192-8.
  • Studies in Language Origins.Vol. I., ed by Jan Wind, Edwin G. Pulleyblank, Eric de Grolier and Bernard H. Bichak gian, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: Benjamins, 1989.ISBN978-1-55619-065-0.
  • Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1990). "The name of the Kirghiz."Central Asiatic Journal34.1-2: 98–08. (Also in Pulleyblank 2002, §VIII).
  • A Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese and Early Mandarin,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: UBC Press. 1991.ISBN978-0-7748-0366-3.
  • A Chinese text in Central Asian Brahmi script: New evidence for the pronunciation of Late Middle Chinese and Khotanese,With R. E. Emmerick. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. 1993.
  • Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: UBC Press. 1995.ISBN978-0-7748-0541-4.
  • "The Roman Empire as known to Han China." A review article onThe Roman Empire in Chinese Sources.D. D. Leslie and K. H. J. Gardiner. Rome (1996). Review by Edwin G. Pulleyblank. JAOS 119.1 (1999), pp. 71–79.JSTOR605541
  • "The Nomads in China and Central Asia in the Post-Han Period," in: Hans Robert ROEMER (Hg.),History of the Turkic Peoples in the Pre-Islamic Period. Histoire des Peuples Turcs à l’Époque Pré-Islamique.(2000). Philologiae et Historiae Turcicae Fundamenta Tomus Primus. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, S. pp. 76–94. (Philologiae Turcicae Fundamenta; III)ISBN978-3-87997-283-8.
  • Essays on Tang and pre-Tang China,Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate. 2001.ISBN978-0-86078-858-4.
  • Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China.Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate. 2002.ISBN978-0-86078-859-1.

References[edit]

  1. ^Lumley, Elizabeth (2003).Canadian Who's Who 2003.University of Toronto Press.ISBN0-8020-8865-1.
  2. ^Bryant, Daniel (2013)."Edwin G. Pulleyblank (1922-2013) |".Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Archived fromthe originalon 1 June 2016.Retrieved23 April2016.
  3. ^abChan (2014),p. 252.
  4. ^Pepall, Diana (January 2017).Canada's Bletchley Park: The Examination Unit in Ottawa's Sandy Hill 1941-1945.Ottawa, ON, Canada: Historical Society of Ottawa.ISBN978-0-920960-43-1.
  5. ^Chan (2014),p. 243.
  6. ^Chan (2014),p. 253.
  7. ^Chan (2014),p. 254.
  8. ^Boorman, Howard L.(1962). "Review:Historians of China and Japan,edited by W. G. Beasley and E. G. Pulleyblank ".Political Science Quarterly.77(1): 132–134.doi:10.2307/2146521.JSTOR2146521.

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