Huang Kan

Background

Huang Qiaoxin 喬馨 (the name Kan was taken up by him later) was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, to a family of Qichun, Hubei ancestry.

Career

In 1903, being 15 years old, he enrolled to a prominent Wuchang school (武昌文華書院, later transformed into the Central China Normal University), but soon was expelled for anti-Qing sentiments. Huang became Zhang"s comrade and student. Both joined the revolutionary United League (Tongmenghui).

Huang and Zhang were the last great masters in the Chinese philological tradition, and helped lay the foundation of modern Chinese linguistics.

Huang was the first to propose a convincing initial systems of Old Chinese. He published very little during his lifetime, but his notebooks, published posthumously, are highly regarded for their philological value.

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