Milena Doleà ¾elová-Velingerová (February 8, 1932 â October 20, 2012) was a renowned Czech sinologist. Having studied with Jaroslav Prà ¯à ¡ek in Prague and Wu Xiaoling 峿ÂÂé´ in Peking, she left Prague in 1968 after the Soviet invasion, and made her later career at the University of Toronto. After retirement in 1996, she continued to publish widely.
Milena Doleà ¾elová-Velingerová received her M.A. degree from Charles University in Prague in 1955 and her Ph.D. degree from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1964.