David Shepherd Nivison
David S. Nivison | |
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Born | |
Died | October 16, 2014 Los Altos, California, United States | (aged 91)
Alma mater | Harvard University (AB, PhD) |
Known for | Discovery of accurate Zhou dynasty founding date |
Spouse |
Cornelia Green
(m. 1944; died 2008) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Edward Shaughnessy, Kwong-loi Shun, Bryan W. Van Norden |
Chinese name | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Ní Déwèi |
Wade–Giles | Ni2 Te2-wei4 |
David Shepherd Nivison (January 17, 1923 – October 16, 2014) was an American sinologist known for his publications on late imperial and ancient Chinese history, philology, and philosophy, and his 40 years as a professor at Stanford University.[1] Nivison is known for his use of archaeoastronomy to accurately determine the date of the founding of the Zhou dynasty as 1045 BC instead of the traditional date of 1122 BC.
Life and career
David Shepherd Nivison was born on January 17, 1923, outside of Farmingdale, Maine. His great-uncle, Edwin Arlington Robinson, was a notable 19th-century American poet and a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.[2]
Nivison entered
Nivison began teaching at
His doctoral dissertation on Zhang Xuecheng, the neglected
Nivison died at his home in Los Altos, California, on October 16, 2014, at age 91.[1]
Major works
- The Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy. Edited with an introduction by Bryan W. Van Norden. Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1996. Chinese translation published as 儒家之道 : 中国哲学之探讨 (Nanjing : Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2006).
- Nivison, David S. (1953). "The Literary and Historical Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, 1738-1801: A Study of His Life and Writing, With Translations of Six Essays from the Wen-shih t'ung-i". Ph.D. dissertation (Harvard University).
- The Riddle of the Bamboo Annals (Zhushu jinian jiemi 竹書紀年解謎), Taipei: .
- Key to the Chronology of the Three Dynasties: The "Modern Text" ASINB0006R6NXK
- Nivison, David S. (1996). Van Norden, Bryan W. (ed.). The Ways of Confucianism : Investigations in Chinese Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court. ISBN 0812693396.
- The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966. Google Books.
- Communist Ethics and Chinese Tradition. (Cambridge: Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954). ISBN
- David S. Nivison and Arthur F. Wright, eds. Confucianism in Action. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, Stanford Studies in the Civilizations of Eastern Asia, 1959).
Notes
- ^ Photo courtesy of George Zhijian Qiao
References
Citations
- ^ a b c Wakefield (2014).
- ^ Robinson Monument
- ^ Ivanhoe (1996), p. xvi-xvii.
- ^ Ivanhoe (1996), p. vii-ix.
Sources
- Wakefield, Tanu (2014). "Stanford Professor Emeritus David Nivison dies at 91". Stanford News. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- Ivanhoe, Peter J., ed. (1996). Chinese Language, Thought, and Culture : Nivison and His Critics. Critics and their Critics Series. Chicago: Open Court. ISBN 0812693183. A collection of essays commenting on or writing further on topics explored by Nivison.
- Shun, Kwong-loi (2015), "Nivison and the Philosophical Study of Confucian Thought", Early China, 38: 41–53, S2CID 232151335