Anthony C. Yu (1938–2015)
Autor von Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber.
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Anthony C. Yu (October 6, 1938 - May 12, 2015) translated an unabridged, four-volume, 1,873-page English version of The Journey to the West, the 16th century epic saga of a Chinese monk's pilgrimage to India in search of sacred Buddhist scriptures. Yu was a scholar of literature and religion, mehr anzeigen eastern and western. He most recently held the title of Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Literature in the Divinity School; also in the Departments of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and English Language and Literature, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He died May 12, 2015. He was 76. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West {Yu} (2006) — Editor & Translator — 90 Exemplare
Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking Through Comparisons (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) (2002) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
The Journey to the West (Selected readings, Humanites core course program) (2000) — Editor & Translator — 1 Exemplar
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- 余国藩
Yú Guófān - Geburtstag
- 1938-10-06
- Todestag
- 2015-05-12
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- male
- Nationalität
- USA (naturalized)
- Geburtsort
- Hong Kong, China [then a British Crown Colony]
- Sterbeort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Wohnorte
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Ausbildung
- University of Chicago (PhD|1969)
Fuller Theological Seminary (STB)
Houghton College (BA) - Berufe
- university professor
scholar of literature and religion - Organisationen
- University of Chicago (held appointments in five departments)
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- Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
Guggenheim Fellowship
Mellon Foundation grant
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Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of… von Anthony C. Yu
One of the best works of "Redology" out there. Comprehensive yet focused, with a particular interest in the relationships between qing (情, roughly "emotion"), xing (性, "nature"), and yu (欲, desire). Overarching message is that we have to pay attention to the ways in which The Dream of the Red Chamber draws attention to its own fictionality; rather than looking for real life referents for every character, place, and event, Cao Xueqin would have wanted us to approach the novel as something constructed.… (mehr)
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