Gong Hwang-cherng, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Chinese linguist and tangutologist
Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1934
Place of Birth: Beigang, Yunlin, Taiwan Province
Date of Death: 11-Sep-2010
Profession: linguist
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Gong Hwang-cherng
- Gong Hwang-cherng (traditional Chinese: ???; simplified Chinese: ???; pinyin: Gong Huángchéng) (1934–2010) was a Taiwan Chinese linguist who specialized in Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics and the phonetic reconstruction of Tangut and Old Chinese.
- He was born 10 December 1934 at Yunlin County in Taiwan, and graduated from National Taiwan Normal University in 1958 with a degree in English.
- He earned his PhD in 1975 from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, and was a research fellow and later professor at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
- He was elected an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America in 2001, and an academician of Academia Sinica in 2002.
- In 2006, he received a life achievement award from the Linguistic Society of Taiwan.
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