Fang Chao-ying

房兆楹

Fang Chao-ying 房兆楹 (pinyin: Fang Zhaoying) (1908–85) was a well-known Chinese studies bibliographer and historian who was born in Tianjin and spent his professional career primarily at libraries and universities in the United States.^[1] Receiving his undergraduate degree from Yenching University where he studied under William Hung (sinologist), he would later became assistant librarian there (1930–32).^[2] There, he met Tu Lien-che, who would become his wife and lifelong collaborator. The pair travelled to the United States for Fang's study at Harvard University, where he also worked in the Chinese-Japanese Library, before becoming assistant to the Library of Congress Orientalia librarian, Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. His later career was spent in university institutions: University of California Berkeley beginning in 1955, at the Australian National University (1961–63) and from 1963 at Columbia University. With Tu, he is best-remembered for his work on Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period and the .^[2] In 1980, he delivered the Morrison Lecture on "The Great Wall of China: Keeping Out or Keeping In?" ^[3] After retirement in New Jersey, he died during a trip to China.^[2] William Theodore de Bary's obituary judged that "It is not too much to say that his name thereby became immortalized in the annals of Western Sinology as the co-compiler of two of the most monumental works of sinological scholarship that have ever been produced in this country."^[4]

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