Eastward flows the great river : festschrift in honor of Professor William S-Y. Wang on his 80th birthday

The Festschrift has over sixty contributions by scholars from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, East Asia, North America and Europe, partitioned in Chinese and English volumes. Authors are active in areas of various linguistic frontiers, investigating language and linguistics from an interdisciplinary perspective. Professor William S-Y. Wang is among the most influential contemporary linguists. For several decades, he has been leading the development of Chinese Linguistics to a higher level. His writings have appeared in handbooks, textbooks, encyclopaedias, numerous technical journals, and have been translated into several languages.