1. Wu Dingliang, known as Woo Ting-Liang, was a pioneering Chinese anthropologist and educator.
10 Facts About Wu Dingliang
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Wu Dingliang is considered the founder of Chinese physical anthropology.
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Wu Dingliang continued his work in Academia Sinica as the director and researcher of the Group of Anthropology in the Institute of History and Language.
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Wu Dingliang's research concentrated on somatometry, description of biological variation of ethnic minorities in China.
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Wu Dingliang collected morphological measurements and described physical characteristics of living people in different parts of China.
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Wu Dingliang prepared the foundation of Institute of Physical Anthropology.
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Wu Dingliang published more than 10 papers on physical anthropology, for example, in 1942, he published "the Physical Characteristics of Miao in South China" in "Journal of Anthropology" edited by Britain Royal Society.
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In Sept of 1947, the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Anthropology were set up at Zhejiang University, Wu Dingliang assumed the dean of the department and the chief of the institute.
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Wu Dingliang educated many students that became prominent scholars of physical anthropology.
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In 1948, Wu Dingliang was elected as academician of Academia Sinica.