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352:. Noticing his aptitude for both mathematics and foreign languages, one of Pulleyblank's professors offered him a chance to do "secret war work", which he accepted. On February 22, 1943 Pulleyblank joined the Examination Unit in Ottawa. This Unit was the civilian codebreaking unit of the Canadian Government. On May 13, 1943 Pulleyblank was sent to 38: 410:
in 1953. In 1953, at only 31 years old, Pulleyblank was given the position of Chair of Chinese at Cambridge, which he held for 13 years. Pulleyblank and his wife wanted to return to North America, and so in 1966 he left Cambridge to join the Asian Studies faculty at the
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Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1983b). "Stages in the transcription of Indian words in Chinese from Han to Tang." Sprachen des Buddhismus in Zentralasien, ed. Klaus Rohrborn & Wolfgang Veenker, 73-102. Wiesbaden: Otto
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who later became a school vice-principal, and his mother, Ruth Pulleyblank, had also been a teacher. Pulleyblank was an avid student with a bright intellect and an excellent memory for details, and taught himself
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Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1983a). "The Chinese and their neighbors in prehistoric and early historic times." The origins of Chinese civilization, ed. David N. Keightley, 411–466 . Berkeley: University of California
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Pulleyblank, E. G., 1963. ‘An interpretation of the vowel systems of Old Chinese and of Written Burmese’, Asia Major (new series) 10(2), 200–221.
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Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1973). ‘Some new hypotheses concerning word families in Chinese.’ Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1.1: 111–125.
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Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1965). ‘The transcription of Sanskrit k and kh in Chinese.’ Asia Major (New Series) 11: 199–210.
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A Chinese text in Central Asian Brahmi script: New evidence for the pronunciation of Late Middle Chinese and Khotanese
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History of the Turkic Peoples in the Pre-Islamic Period. Histoire des Peuples Turcs à l’Époque Pré-Islamique
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A Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese and Early Mandarin
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In 1946, Pulleyblank received a Chinese national government scholarship to study Chinese at the
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Canada's Bletchley Park: The Examination Unit in Ottawa's Sandy Hill 1941-1945
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in 1939 on an Alberta provincial government scholarship, and majored in the
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in 1951 for a dissertation entitled "The Background and Early Life of
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School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London
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Edwin G. "Ted" Pulleyblank was born on August 7, 1922, in
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Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1990). "The name of the Kirghiz."
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Pulleyblank, Edwin G. 1981. "Han China in Central Asia."
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Pulleyblank spent a year doing research at libraries in
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Chinese History and World History: An inaugural lecture
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to train with the Government Code and Cipher School at
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Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China
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Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
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Pulleyblank (1922-2013) |" 442:"The Consonantal System of Old Chinese", 930:Academics of the University of Cambridge 799: 300:. He was a professor who taught at the 950:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada 925:Academics of SOAS University of London 902: 891:Edwin G. Pulleyblank (1922–2013) 738: 696: 671: 877:Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar 840: 787: 775: 763: 726: 587:Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar 935:Alumni of SOAS University of London 602:The Roman Empire in Chinese Sources 518:The International Historical Review 13: 315: 14: 976: 868: 630:Essays on Tang and pre-Tang China 418: 676:. University of Toronto Press. 850:Journal of Chinese Linguistics 793: 739:Pepall, Diana (January 2017). 732: 690: 665: 494:"Late Middle Chinese, Part II" 413:University of British Columbia 302:University of British Columbia 289:Edwin George "Ted" Pulleyblank 267: 253: 239: 209: 168:University of British Columbia 1: 805:Historians of China and Japan 658: 474:"Late Middle Chinese, Part I" 437:Historians of China and Japan 965:University of Alberta alumni 856:(1): 252–266. Archived from 841:Chan, Marjorie K.M. (2014). 151:Chinese linguistics, history 7: 809:Political Science Quarterly 546:Studies in Language Origins 78:Vancouver, British Columbia 10: 981: 672:Lumley, Elizabeth (2003). 160:SOAS, University of London 126:(2002–13, his death) 121:(1946–76, her death) 97:SOAS, University of London 455:1962/1962-206.pdf 206–265 282: 278: 260: 246: 232: 225: 220: 216: 202: 197: 193: 189: 185: 173: 155: 147: 140: 132: 114: 85: 66: 44: 35: 21: 879:on the site of UBC Press 339:Latin and Greek Classics 697:Bryant, Daniel (2013). 674:Canadian Who's Who 2003 561:Central Asiatic Journal 451:1962/1962-58.PDF 58–144 104:University of Cambridge 335:University of Alberta 90:University of Alberta 945:Canadian sinologists 404:Cambridge University 164:Cambridge University 23:Edwin G. Pulleyblank 955:People from Calgary 366:Carleton University 345:in his spare time. 884:2009-11-09 at the 801:Boorman, Howard L. 499:2021-12-18 at the 479:2016-03-04 at the 460:2019-12-17 at the 863:on July 14, 2014. 803:(1962). 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Calgary, Alberta
Vancouver, British Columbia
University of Alberta
SOAS, University of London
University of Cambridge
M.A.
SOAS, University of London
Cambridge University
University of British Columbia
Doctoral advisor
Walter Simon
Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Wade–Giles
FRSC
sinologist
University of British Columbia
phonology
Chinese
Calgary, Alberta
mathematics
Ancient Greek
University of Alberta
Latin and Greek Classics
physics
World War II

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