Rafe de Crespigny

Richard Rafe Champion de Crespigny ( born March 16, 1936 in Adelaide ) is an Australian sinologist. He is Emeritus Associate Professor at the Center for China and Korea at the Australian National University in Canberra. The principal, who did much in the history, geography and literature of the Han Dynasty and pioneering work in the publication and translation of the sources at the time of the Three Kingdoms.

Career

De Crespigny studied history at Cambridge University and earned a BA in 1957, MA 1961 At the Australian National University, he was BA 1962 Sinology, 1964 M. A. of Oriental and 1968 Ph.D. ( Doctor ) of the Far Eastern history. Through suggestions from Hans Bielenstein, Patrick Fitzgerald, Hsu Cho - yun and Miyazaki Ichisada and by reading the history of the Three Kingdoms, a classic novel, he came to the three kingdoms of China. His dissertation in 1964 under the title The Development of the Chinese Empire in the South; a discussion of the origins of the state of Wu of the Three Kingdoms ( German "The development of the Chinese empire in the south, a discussion of the origins of the State of Wu of the Three Kingdoms " ) laid the foundation for his later work, which, inter alia, the monograph Generals of the South (1990 ) reflected.

Publications

In addition to works of contemporary Chinese history China: The Land and Its People ( Melbourne, 1971); China This Century (Melbourne, 1975, Hong Kong edition 1992) is de Crespignys most meritorious work in the field of politics the Han Dynasty. In addition to a plant Northern Frontier: The Policies and Strategy of the Later Han Empire (Canberra 1984), he published in 1996 a first (incomplete ) translation of the historical work of Sima Guang Zizhi Tongjian: To Establish Peace (Canberra 1996).

Groundbreaking is his work Generals of the South, in which he outlines the rise of the Sun family, and the tripartite division of China in the 3rd century. It also forms the starting point for a discussion of the Southern Dynasties of the 5th century and points to different origins of the development north and south China.

A standard work on the history of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms is his extensive work A biographical dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms, the 2007 in the section 4 (China) published the Handbook of Oriental Studies.

Memberships and Honors

  • Congress for Asian and North African Studies Secretary General of the 28th Congress in Canberra in 1971
  • Member of advisory and executive committees, 29th Congress in Paris in 1973
  • Guides 30 Congress in Mexico City in 1975
  • Member of the executive committee 32nd Congress in Hamburg in 1986

Awards

  • 2001: Centenary Medal by the Australian government for his services to the Australian Association for Asian Studies
  • 2011: Prix Stanislas Julien
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