When the voice goes out … Kun Chang 張琨 (次瑤) 1917 - 2017

By H. Samuel Cheung 张洪年

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“Collect, observe, and study carefully. Get your data right and let the language speak for itself.”

These were the words he offered to students who came to enroll in his graduate seminar on Chinese linguistics. These were also the words he held dear to his heart, always with microscopic examination, be it Chinese or Sanskrit, Tibetan or Miao-Yao. This conviction was, in fact, what kept him going for more than seven decades in research, a conviction that accounted for his accomplishments both as a linguist and a teacher. Professor Kun Chang, of the University of California at Berkeley, passed away on April 4, 2017, at the age of 99.

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