{"id":42100,"date":"2009-07-12T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=42100"},"modified":"2009-07-12T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T02:54:10","slug":"chinese-mourn-ji-acclaimed-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/07\/chinese-mourn-ji-acclaimed-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Mourn Ji, Acclaimed Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2009-07\/13\/content_8418054.htm\">China Daily<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One day after the death of one of the country&#8217;s greatest minds, Chinese paid their respects Sunday to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ji_Xianlin\">Ji Xianlin<\/a>, a widely acclaimed linguist and &#8220;national treasure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The line of mourners was seemingly endless for the midday memorial service in the auditorium at Peking University, where Ji had once worked.<\/p>\n<p>Ji, who was born in Shandong, was awarded the highest honors in literature by China and India. He was one month short of his 98th birthday. Ji suffered a heart attack at a Beijing hospital on Saturday.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2009-07\/13\/content_8419171.htm\">Ji Xianlin, the reluctant master<\/a> by Xiao Dao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From China Daily: One day after the death of one of the country&#8217;s greatest minds, Chinese paid their respects Sunday to Ji Xianlin, a widely acclaimed linguist and &#8220;national treasure&#8221;. The line of mourners was seemingly endless for the midday memorial service in the auditorium at Peking University, where Ji had once worked. Ji, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[4717],"class_list":["post-42100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-society","tag-china-scholars","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chinese Mourn Ji, Acclaimed Scholar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/07\/chinese-mourn-ji-acclaimed-scholar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chinese Mourn Ji, Acclaimed Scholar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From China Daily: One day after the death of one of the country&#8217;s greatest minds, Chinese paid their respects Sunday to Ji Xianlin, a widely acclaimed linguist and &#8220;national treasure&#8221;. 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