Li Yih-yuan
Li Yih-yuan (Chinese: 李亦園; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí E̍k-oân; 20 August 1931 – 18 April 2017) was a Taiwanese anthropologist.
A native of Quanzhou, Fujian, born in 1931, Li moved to Taiwan in 1948 and graduated from National Taiwan University in 1953.[1][2] Two years later, he began working at Academia Sinica.[1][2] In 1960, Li earned his master's degree from Harvard University.[1][2] He was elected to membership within Academia Sinica in 1984.[1][2] That same year, he founded the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Tsing Hua University,[1][2] serving as dean of the college until 1990.[1][3] Li remained on the faculty until 1999,[1] a year after he had retired from Academia Sinica.[2] He later taught at National Taiwan University as an adjunct professor.[4] Li was founding president of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation from 1989 to 2001, when he assumed the foundation chairmanship, yielding the latter position in 2010.[1][3]
In later life, Li was diagnosed with heart disease.[2] He fell ill with pneumonia in 2017, and died on 18 April that year, aged 85, while seeking treatment at the Taipei Medical University Hospital.[1][3] The Academia Sinica held a memorial service for Li in September 2017.[5] Subsequently, in November 2018, the Academia Sinica invited P. Steven Sangren to give the inaugural Li Yih-yuan Memorial Lecture.[6]
Li Yih-yuan Memorial Lecturers
[edit]- P. Steven Sangren (2018)[6]
- John Comaroff (2019)[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i "In Remembrance of Academician Li Yih-yuan (1931-2017)". Academia Sinica. 18 April 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g Chen, Chih-chung; Hsu, Elizabeth (19 April 2017). "Anthropologist Li Yih-yuan dies at age 86". Central News Agency. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ a b c "Professor Yih-yuan Li, Former Chairman of the Foundation, has Passed Away". Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "Yi-Yuan Li 李亦園". National Taiwan University. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "Academician Li Yih-yuan Memorial Service (2017.09.09)". 9 September 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ a b "1st Li Yih-yuan Memorial Lecture". Academia Sincia. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "2nd Li Yih-yuan Memorial Lecture". Academia Sinica. 15 November 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
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- 1931 births
- 2017 deaths
- Deaths from pneumonia in Taiwan
- Taiwanese anthropologists
- Taiwanese people from Fujian
- National Taiwan University alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Members of Academia Sinica
- Academic staff of the National Tsing Hua University
- 20th-century anthropologists
- People from Quanzhou
- Taiwanese university and college faculty deans
- Taiwanese expatriates in the United States