Wu Dingliang (January 1893 - 24 March 1969? (Chinese:????Woo Ting-Liang), pionee ring Chinese anthropologist and educator.

He can be rightfully considered the fa ther of Chinese physical anthropology. Biography Dingliang was educated in Britain during 1920s and came back to China after he o btained doctor's degree in anthropology. He continued his work in Academia Sinic a as the director and researcher of the Group of Anthropology in the Institute o f History and Language. His research concentrated on somatometry, description of biological variation of ethnic minorities in China. He collected morphological measurements and described physical characteristics of living people in differen t parts of China. He also prepared the foundation of Institute of Physical Anthr opology. He published more than 10 papers on physical anthropology, for example, in 1942, he published "the Physical Characteristics of Miao in South China" in "Journal of Anthropology" edited by Britain Royal Society. Moreover, Wu Dinglian g set up and edited "Renleixue Jikan"(Communication on Anthropology). In 1941, Wu published the paper "Somatometry of Chinese in the Plain of North Ch ina" (including 190 indexes of somatometry) in Vol.2 of "Communication on Anthro pology". In Sept.of 1947, the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of An thropology were set up at Zhejiang University, Wu Dingliang assumed the dean of the department and the chief of the institute. Wu Dingliang educated many studen ts that became prominent scholars of physical anthropology. Among them are Zhang Yinyun and Han Kangxin. In the period from 1946 to 1948, he also worked as part -time professor in the department of anthropology at Jinan University in Shangha i. In 1948,Wu Dingliang was elected as academician of Academia Sinica. He suffered from Cultural Revolution and died in 1969. References Wu Dingliang and Mo Rende, 1932, A Preliminary Classification of Asiatic Races B ased on Cranial Measurements [monograph], Academia Sinica Monograph of the Natio nal Research Institute of Social Science, No.7 Communication on Anthropology http://comonca.org.cn