Kun Chang

Kun Chang received his B.A. (1938) in Chinese language and literature from National Tsinghua University and his M.A. (1949) and Ph.D. (1955) from Yale. He became an Academician in Academia Sinica in 1972. After teaching Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit for 12 years at the University of Washington in Seattle, he arrived at Berkeley in 1963, where he taught Chinese Language and historical linguistics until his retirement in 1988. He has conducted research at National Southwestern University, Academia Sinica, and Yenching University (linguistic survey of non-Chinese languages in southwestern China). His fields of publication include Moso, Miao-yao, historical Chinese Linguistics, and, with Betty Shefts Chang, spoken Tibetan.