It is with great sadness that the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology announces the passing of Professor Jao Tsung-I, on Tuesday, February 6, 2018, at the age of 101 years.
Professor Jao, one of the most renowned scholars and men of letters of our time, was born in Chaozhou, Guangdong in 1917. In his more than 80 years of academic research, his scholarship extended to nearly every field of traditional Chinese culture, and included ancient history, oracle bone studies, comparative paleography, Dunhuang studies, Chinese classics and their commentaries, archaeology, religions, ethnology, historiography, bibliographical studies, and art history. He was proficient in multiple languages, ranging from English and French to ancient languages such as Latin, Sanskrit and Pali. Professor Jao was also highly regarded for his original creation in poetry, calligraphy, painting and musical performance. Throughout his life, Professor Jao was devoted to promote Chinese culture, and with profound and bright virtue cultivated and enlightened numerous many others. In addition to his lifelong professorships in Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore, Professor Jao also held visiting professorships at Yale University in the United States, L’Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient in France and Kyoto University in Japan, as well as a research professorship at Academic Sinica in Taiwan. In 2000, Professor Jao was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal, highest honor offered by the government of HKSAR.
The loss of Professor Jao is deeply felt by all the members of the Academy. A guestbook has been set out at the Academy on the 7th floor of Shaw Tower for all members of the HKBU community to express their feelings in memory of Professor Jao.
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國學泰斗饒宗頤教授今日凌晨仙逝，享壽101歲。
饒宗頤教授為香港浸會大學饒宗頤國學院永遠榮譽院長。國學院之成立，即以闡揚饒公之治學精神，弘益饒公之學術成就為宗旨；國學院之發展，亦多蒙饒公之關心眷愛與鼎力支持。驚悉饒公遽歸道山，學院上下不勝悲慟，悼哲人之長往，懷斯文之永存！
南天柱折，北辰星黯，頌饒公其千古，奠心香之一瓣。國學院即日起將設置饒宗頤教授追思留言簿，欲表哀忱者請至香港浸會大學饒宗頤國學院（逸夫行政樓七樓）留言紀念。耑此佈告。饒宗頤教授千古！