Ting Pang-hsin (Chinese: 丁邦新; pinyin: Dīng Bāngxīn; 28 November 1936 – 30 January 2023) was a Chinese linguist, and an academician of the Academia Sinica.
[2] After the defeat of the Kuomintang by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, Ting relocated to Taiwan.
In August 1981, he was named acting director of the Institute of History and Philology, confirmed in March 1985.
[2][3] During his tenure at Berkeley, Ting held the Agassiz Professorship of Chinese Linguistics from 1994.
[2] Between 1993 and 1994, Ting replaced William Shi-Yuan Wang as president of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics.