Mr. Wang Li (1900- 1986) is a native of Bobai, Guangxi. One of the founders of modern linguistics in China. Dropped out of school in poverty in his early years and taught himself at home. 1924, go to Shanghai to study; 1926 was admitted to Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies, where he studied under Liang Qichao and Zhao Yuanren; 1927 to study in France; /kloc-0 returned to China in 1932 with a doctorate in literature from the University of Paris. He has served as a professor in Tsinghua University, The National SouthWest Associated University, Lingnan University, Sun Yat-sen University and Peking University.
Lv Shuxiang (1904- 1998) was born in Danyang, Jiangsu. Mr Lv Shuxiang is a master of linguistics in China. He has been tirelessly engaged in language teaching and language research for more than 70 years, covering a wide range of fields, such as general linguistics, Chinese studies, text reform, Chinese teaching, writing style, dictionary compilation, ancient books collation and so on.
Ding Shengshu (1909- 1989) is a linguist. No. Wuzi, a native of Deng County, Henan Province. 1932 after graduating from the literature department of China, Peking University, he went to work in the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica. 1944 ~ 1948 visited the United States. 1952 Up to now, he is a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of China Academy of Sciences (1977 was renamed the Institute of Linguistics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). He used to be a member of the Committee of Philosophy and Social Sciences Department of China Academy of Sciences, a member of the Central Committee for Promoting Putonghua, a member of the Putonghua Examination Committee of China Academy of Sciences, the editor-in-chief of China Language magazine, and a member of the Sixth CPPCC from 1959 to 1964. Ding Shengshu has struggled in the field of language and writing for nearly half a century, and his research scope is very wide. He has made great achievements in Chinese grammar, Chinese phonology, Chinese dialects, ancient Chinese and dictionary compilation.