Anthony C. Yu

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Anthony C. Yu
Born(1938-08-06)August 6, 1938
Houghton College
Academic work
DisciplineLiterature, religion, sinology
Sub-disciplineComparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Notable worksTranslation of Journey to the West
Anthony C. Yu
Hanyu Pinyin
Yú Guófān
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationYùh Gwok-fàahn
JyutpingJyu4 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. .
  • —— (1997). Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. .
  • —— (2005). State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives. Chicago, Ill.: Open Court. .
  • --- 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. .

References

  1. ^ "Members of the Executive Council, 1997–present". Modern Language Association. Archived from the original on 2020-12-21. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  2. ^ "Anthony C. Yu Norman Maclean Faculty Award". December 2014.
  3. ^ Allen, Susie (May 18, 2015). "Anthony C. Yu, translator and scholar of religion and literature, 1938-2015". University of Chicago. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
  4. ^ Lattimore, David (1983-03-06). "The Complete 'Monkey'". The New York Times.
  5. ^ from the original on 2020-12-21. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  6. ^ "Anthony C. Yu". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  7. ^ Allen (2015).
  8. ^ "Altered Accents and a Global China —-In Memory of Professor Anthony C Yu". China Hands. 8 January 2018.
  9. JSTOR 26357339
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