1900, Zhao Yuanren returned to his hometown of Qingguo Lane, Changzhou, and studied in No.2 Middle School.
1906 (fourteen years old), entered Changzhou Xishan Primary School.
1907 entered the preparatory course of Nanjing Jiangnan University with excellent results.
19 10 In July, Qingyou Aesthetic Department was admitted to the second place in Beijing (70 people were selected). In August of the same year, he went to Cornell University to study mathematics. Take physics and music as elective courses.
19 14 received a bachelor of science degree.
19 15 entered Harvard University to major in philosophy and continue to take music as an elective.
19 18 received a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard university.
19 19, Zhao Yuanren taught in the Physics Department of Cornell University.
65438-0920 Teaching physics, mathematics and psychology in Tsinghua University.
/kloc-in the winter of 0/920, the famous British philosopher Luo Su gave a lecture in China, with Zhao Yuanren as his translator.
192 1 jun 1 day, married Yang Buwei.
192 1 year, Mr. and Mrs. Zhao Yuanren came to the United States, and Zhao Yuanren was a lecturer in philosophy and Chinese at Harvard University, studying linguistics.
From 65438 to 0925, Zhao Yuanren returned to Tsinghua University to teach mathematics, physics, China phonology, general linguistics, modern China dialect, China music score and western music appreciation. With Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei and Chen Yinque, they are also called "four great teachers" of Tsinghua.
1928, as a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Institute, conducted a large number of language field investigations and folk music collections.
1938- 1939, teaching China music at the University of Hawaii.
1938 to 194 1 year, teaching at Yale university. Five years later, he returned to teach at Harvard and participated in the editing of Harvard and Yanjing dictionaries. During this period, he became an American citizen.
1945 Zhao Yuanren was elected president of the American Language Society.
1945, Zhao Yuanren was elected president of the American Language Institute (LSA).
1946 Zhu Jiahua, Minister of Education of the Kuomintang government, sent a telegram asking Zhao Yuanren to be the president of Nanjing Central University. Zhao Yuanren replied, "I can't do it. Thank you! "
65438-0947 taught Chinese and linguistics to China at the University of California, Berkeley.
From 65438 to 0948, Zhao Yuanren was elected as the first academician of Academia Sinica in China and an academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1952 was appointed professor of oriental languages and China studies at Aggasiz foundation.
1959 giving lectures at Taiwan Province Provincial University.
1960 was elected president of American Oriental Society (AOS).
1962 retired from the University of California, Berkeley, and still served as the outgoing professor of the University of California.
From 65438 to 0973, the normalization of Sino-US relations just started. Zhao Yuanren and his wife took their granddaughter Zhao Bo and son-in-law Mike back to China to visit relatives. From the evening of May 6th, 2003 to the early morning of May 6th, 2004, he was cordially received by Premier Zhou Enlai. Premier Zhou also talked with Zhao Yuanren about the script reform and the "Tongzi Plan" that Zhao Yuanren devoted himself to. Also present were Guo Moruo, Wu, Zhu Kezhen and other friends.
198 1 year, at the invitation of the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Zhao Yuanren, who just lost his wife, returned home to visit relatives with his eldest daughter Zhao Rulan, his son-in-law Bian Xueshuang and his fourth daughter Zhao. He was warmly received by Deng Xiaoping, chairman of China People's Political Consultative Conference, and accepted the title of honorary professor awarded by Peking University.
Zhao Yuanren died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 24th, 1982. At the age of 90.