Anthony C. Yu
Anthony C. Yu | |
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Born | Houghton College | August 6, 1938
Academic work | |
Discipline | Literature, religion, sinology |
Sub-discipline | Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
Notable works | Translation of Journey to the West |
Anthony C. Yu | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Yú Guófān |
Yue: Cantonese | |
Yale Romanization | Yùh Gwok-fàahn |
Jyutping | Jyu4 Gwok Faan4 |
Anthony Christopher Yu (
Four Great Classical Novels Journey to the West into English.[4]
Biography
Yu was born in
S.T.B) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.). Among his honors and awards are elected membership in the American Council of Learned Societies and Academia Sinica,[6] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship and Mellon Foundation grant.[7][8][9]
He died of heart failure in 2015.[5]
Works
- Yu, Anthony C. (1969). The Fall: The Poetic and Theological Realism of Aeschylus, Milton, and Camus.
- —— (1973). Parnassus Revisited: Modern Critical Essays on the Epic Tradition. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0838901328.
- —— (1997). Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691015619.
- —— (2005). State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives. Chicago, Ill.: Open Court. ISBN 0812695526.
- --- coedited (with Mary Gerhart) Morphologies of Faith: Essays in Religion and Culture in Honor of Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
- —— (2008). Religion, Education and the Conflict of Culture. Hong Kong: Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong. ISBN 9789628216208.
References
- ^ "Members of the Executive Council, 1997–present". Modern Language Association. Archived from the original on 2020-12-21. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ^ "Anthony C. Yu Norman Maclean Faculty Award". December 2014.
- ^ Allen, Susie (May 18, 2015). "Anthony C. Yu, translator and scholar of religion and literature, 1938-2015". University of Chicago. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
- ^ Lattimore, David (1983-03-06). "The Complete 'Monkey'". The New York Times.
- ^ from the original on 2020-12-21. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ^ "Anthony C. Yu". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ Allen (2015).
- ^ "Altered Accents and a Global China —-In Memory of Professor Anthony C Yu". China Hands. 8 January 2018.
- JSTOR 26357339.
Further reading
Wikiquote has quotations related to Anthony C. Yu.
- Eric Jozef Ziolkowski, ed. Literature, Religion, and East/West Comparison: Essays in Honor of Anthony C. Yu (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005). ISBN 0874138698.