Chia-ying Yeh
Florence Chia-ying Yeh (July 2, 1924 – November 24, 2024), also known as Ye Jiaying (simplified Chinese: 叶嘉莹; traditional Chinese: 葉嘉瑩), Jialing (迦陵), and by her married name Chia-ying Yeh Chao, was a Chinese-born Taiwanese-Canadian poet and sinologist. She was a scholar of classical Chinese poetry. Yeh taught for 20 years at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and was a Professor Emerita from her retirement in 1989. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. After retiring from UBC, she taught at Nankai University in Tianjin, where she was the founding Director of the Institute of Chinese Classical Culture.
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