<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Randy,<div><br></div><div>I don’t see an obituary attached. <br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Best regards,</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""><b class="">Jesse P. Gates, PhD<br class=""></b>Nankai University, School of Literature 南开大学文学院<br class=""><a href="https://nankai.academia.edu/JesseGates" class="">https://nankai.academia.edu/JesseGates</a><br></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 18, 2023, at 15:06, Randy J. LaPolla <randy.lapolla@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Hi All,<div>I just got the sad news that Prof. Mei Tsu-lin passed away. He was 90 years old. Here is an obituary and an account of his last day. Not sure who wrote either one of these documents, as they were sent to me from the Li Fang-kuei memorial society without details.The obituary mentions he was born in Beijing, but doesn’t say where in Beijing. He told me he was born on the campus of Yen Ching University, which is now the campus of Peking University.<br><div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div>Prof. Mei didn’t do Tibeto-Burman linguistics, but many of you might have met him at conferences. He mainly worked on historical grammar of Chinese.</div><div><br></div><div>Randy</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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