William John Francis Jenner

William (Bill) John Francis Jenner (Ch詹纳 尓; born 1940 ) is an English Sinologist, a specialist in Chinese history and culture, and translator of Chinese literature.

Biography

Jenner studied from 1958 to 1962 in Oxford Chinese and wrote his dissertation on the history of Luoyang in the 5th and 6th centuries.

From 1963 to 1965 Jenner worked as a translator at the publisher of foreign-language literature in Beijing. There was, inter alia, From Emperor to Citizen ( Vol 1 1964, Vol 2 1965, later editions in one volume, including one from Oxford University Press), a translation of the " autobiography " of the last emperor of China, Puyi. He began with a translation of the novel Journey to the West.

In 1965 Jenner taught at Leeds University, the Australian National University and the University of East Anglia.

From 1979 to 1985 Jenner returned in the summer always returns to China on the translation of Journey to the West and other works - among other things Lu Xun - to work.

His latest project is a two-volume history of China from the Stone Age to the present.

Jenner has two daughters and a son.

Selections

Translations

  • Wu Cheng'en: Journey to the West. Publisher Foreign Languages ​​Press, Beijing
  • Lu Xun: Selected Poems. Publisher Foreign Languages ​​Press, Beijing 1982.
  • Ding Ling: Miss Sophie 's Diary and Other Stories. Panda Books / Chinese Literature Press, Beijing 1985.
  • Modern Chinese Stories. Oxford University Press 1970; Gladys Yang.
  • Chinese Lives. An Oral History of Contemporary China. Pantheon, New York, 1987; with Delia Davin and Cheng Ling Fang.
  • From Emperor to Citizen. The Autobiography of Aisin - Gioro Pu Yi. Oxford University Press 1987 / Publisher Foreign Languages ​​Press, Beijing 1989.
  • Zhang Leping: Adventures of Sanmao the Orphan. Joint Publications, Hong Kong 1981; with C. M. Chan.

Monographs

  • Memories of Loyang. Yang Hsuan -chih and the Lost Capital, 493-534. Clarendon Press, Oxford / Oxford University Press, New York 1981.
  • The Tyranny of History. The Roots of China 's Crisis. . Penguin, London 1992 German edition: China's long way in the crisis. The tyranny of the story. Stuttgart 1993.
  • A Knife in My Ribs for a mate. Reflections on Another Chinese tradition. Australian National University, Canberra 1993.

Article

  • Sinologist
  • Historian
  • Literary scholar
  • University teachers ( University of East Anglia)
  • University teachers ( University of Leeds )
  • University teachers (Australian National University )
  • Briton
  • English
  • Born in 1940
  • Man
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