1924
Chia-ying Yeh, Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist (died 2024)
Chia-ying Yeh, Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist (died 2024)
Chia-ying Yeh, Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist (died 2024)
Chia-ying Yeh
Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist (1924–2024)
- Born
- 1924
Florence Chia-ying Yeh, also known as Ye Jiaying, 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.