
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thank you, Wolfgang.<div><br></div><div>For those who can read Chinese, here is a 1999 interview with Prof Mei shared by Zhao Tong:</div><div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Microsoft YaHei UI";"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Microsoft YaHei UI";">沉痛悼念梅先生。1999年春，先生在北大讲学，我硕士二年级，做了一个访谈，题为“语言学：处在软科学与硬科学之间——梅祖麟教授访谈录”，发表在《中华读书报》1999年3月24日第九版。官方的网页（<span dir="ltr">https://www.gmw.cn/03rili/ds1999gb.htm</span>）打不开，只找到下面这个转载，以志怀念。</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Microsoft YaHei UI";"><a href="http://5918718.cn/3/Html/?215.html">http://5918718.cn/3/Html/?215.html</a> </div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Microsoft YaHei UI";"></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Microsoft YaHei UI"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Microsoft YaHei UI";"><br></div><hr color="#b5c4df" size="1" align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Microsoft YaHei UI"; width: 210px; height: 1px;"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Microsoft YaHei UI";"><div style="margin: 10px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">ZHAO TONG</div></div><blockquote style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5em; font-family: "Microsoft YaHei UI"; margin-right: inherit;"> </blockquote><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 18, 2023, at 17:37, Wolfgang Behr <wolfgang.behr@aoi.uzh.ch> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Dear Randy & all,</span><br><span></span><br><span>here's a mini obituary on Mei xiansheng I posted as little X thread earlier</span><br><span>today:</span><br><span></span><br><span>https://twitter.com/behrwolf/status/1714554063633658157</span><br><span></span><br><span>Best,</span><br><span>W</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On Wed, 2023-10-18 at 15:06 +0800, Randy J. LaPolla wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi All,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I just got the sad news that Prof. Mei Tsu-lin passed away. He was 90</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>years old. Here is an obituary and an account of his last day. Not sure</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>who wrote either one of these documents, as they were sent to me from the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Li Fang-kuei memorial society without details.The obituary mentions he</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>was born in Beijing, but doesn’t say where in Beijing. He told me he was</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>born on the campus of Yen Ching University, which is now the campus of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Peking University.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Prof. Mei didn’t do Tibeto-Burman linguistics, but many of you might have</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>met him at conferences. He mainly worked on historical grammar of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Chinese.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Randy</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Tibeto-burman-linguistics mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Tibeto-burman-linguistics@listserv.linguistlist.org</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tibeto-burman-linguistics</span><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></body></html>