PhD student in Chinese
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B.Engr., Engineering Mechanics, Beihang University
M.A., Language Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Ben Zhang received his B.E. in Engineering Mechanics from Beihang University and his M.A. in
Language Studies from City University of Hong Kong. By studying the Chinese
Buddhist transcriptions from several Tang-dynasty Buddhist texts and analyzing the diffusion of
the concerned phonetic changes, he evaluated two significant phonetic changes in Middle
Chinese Chang’an dialect to argue for a chain shift thereon. He now aims to combine and make
mutually supporting the investigation into Old Chinese morphology and that into related
contemporary and earlier phonological changes, taking into consideration evidence from
various sources.