Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Gu Jiegang

Chinese historian1893 to 1980

Wikidata names Chang Ping-lin as doctoral advisor and lists 6 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Gu Jiegang, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught6

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Zheng Dekun

    born 1907
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Liu Yen Tao

    born 1908
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Tong Shuye

    born 1908
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Yang Xiangkui

    born 1910
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Hou Renzhi

    born 1911
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Tan Qixiang

    born 1911

The line above and below1 step

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Education and career5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.