Ching-kun (CK) Yang (Yáng Qìngkūn)
Photo from the cover of Social Change in Contemporary China: C.K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. Chinese American, Sociologist Ching-kun (CK) Yang (Yáng Qìngkūn) (1911-1999) Also known as Ch’ing-K’un Yang; Qingkun Yang, C. K. Yang was a sociologist whose work contributed to scholarship about religious life in China …