Introducing Wang Li by Bo Wang

Introducing Wang Li by Bo Wang

Focusing on the life and works of Wang Li, one of the founding figures of modern Chinese linguistics, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to his scholarship. It presents Wang Li as a pioneering linguist whose research ranged across grammar, phonology and phonetics, historical linguistics, dialectology, pedagogy, and prosody, and shows how he integrated traditional Chinese philology with modern linguistic science. The book first sketches Wang Li’s life through a concise biography from his birth in 1900 to his deceased in 1986, highlighting key moments in his intellectual development and professional career. It then introduces his major contributions across different research areas, explaining their significance to the study of the Chinese language. This volume is an essential resource for students and researchers of Chinese linguistics, as well as for readers seeking an accessible entry point to one of the most influential linguists of the twentieth century.

“This volume is a long-overdue and vital response to the need for a comprehensive English-language study of Wang Li’s life and monumental academic legacyAs the first work of its kind, the book makes his scholarly heritage accessible to a worldwide readership. It aims not only to pay tribute to the great thinker but also to enrich our global understanding of language, culture, and China’s modern intellectual history. The relevance and insight of Wang Li’s academic thought remain vibrant today, and this volume serves as an indispensable key to unlocking that treasure.”

Guowen Huang, Professor of Applied Linguistics, City University of Macau

“his book on Wang Li is a real treat for Chinese linguists. Wang Li was a founding figure of Chinese linguistics whose work is classic in our field but, to the best of my knowledge, no book of this scope has ever been written in English about his life and works. The three authors carefully navigate their readers through Wang Li's fascinating life, and the book is not only an illuminating academic work but also a genuinely interesting read, which I definitely recommend for both academics and students with interest in Chinese studies and linguistics.”

Dániel Z. Kádár (Member of Academia Europaea; Professor, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China)

Bo Wang is a researcher in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. He is the co-author of Lao She’s Teahouse and Its Two English Translations (Routledge, 2020), Translating Tagore’s Stray Birds into Chinese (Routledge, 2021), Systemic Functional Translation Studies (2021), Introducing M.A.K. Halliday (Routledge, 2022), Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics (Springer, 2022), and Introducing Chinese Discourse (Routledge, 2025)

Tianqi Ma is a doctoral student in Linguistics at the University of Macau. She is an experienced song translator who has rendered over forty songs into singable forms. Her research centers on Chinese–English singable song translation, with particular attention to the musicality of language and its integration with musical structures. Her broad research interests include sound symbolism, creativity in translation practice, human-centered augmented machine translation, and audiovisual translation.

Yuanyi Ma is currently a researcher at Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University, Canada. She is the co-editor of Key Themes and New Directions in Systemic Functional Translation Studies (Routledge, 2022) and Theorizing and Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics (Routledge, 2024). She and Bo Wang are translators of Modern Chinese Grammar (Routledge, 2023) and A History of Chinese Grammar (Routledge, forthcoming) by Professor Wang Li.

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ISBN 13	9781032399430
ISBN 10	1032399430
Title	Introducing Wang Li
Author	Bo Wang
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2026-06-01
Number of pages	404
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