Tā wǎnnián shuāngmù shīmíng, réng jiānchí xuéshù yánjiū.
He went blind in his later years but persisted in academic research.
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Studied at Harvard and Berlin and mastered over a dozen languages including Sanskrit, Pali, and Manchu. A Tsinghua professor and one of the 'Four Great Tutors' (四大导师) of its early Institute of Chinese Studies. Persecuted during the Cultural Revolution.
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His name's surname character 恪 has a disputed pronunciation - standard Mandarin kè, but many scholars say Què following his family's Hakka reading.
