Duan Qing
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Born in Beijing on 13 May 1953, Duan Qing studied German at Peking University, 1971–1974. After gaining her MA in Indology under Ji Xianlin 季羨林 and Jiang Zhongxin 蔣忠新, she earned her Ph.D. in Hamburg, West Germany, in 1986. She majored in Middle Iranian Studies with Ronald Emmerick, and took Indology and Tibetology as minor fields under Lambert Schmithausen and Albrecht Wezler. She then returned to Peking University, where she had a life-long teaching career. She died on 26 March 2022.[3]