Glen Dudbridge

Born in Clevedon, Somerset in Britain in 1938, Glen Dudbridge received his B.A. degree in Chinese from Cambridge University in 1962. He studied in the New Asia Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies, Hong Kong in 1963-64, and obtained his Ph.D. from Oxford University in 1967. From 1965 to 1985 he was a lecturer in Modern Chinese at Oxford. In 1985 he was appointed Professor of Chinese at Cambridge University, and in 1989 Shaw Professor of Chinese and Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies at Oxford University.

Glen Dudbridge is a British sinologist deeply interested in classical Chinese fiction and vernacular literature. He has been a member of the Renditions Advisory Board since 1985. His translations 'The Imperial Guardsman', 'The Nagas of Udyana' and 'A Man of Ruyin' are published in Renditions No. 32.

The hand-written drafts of Dudbridges' work are no longer extant. The typewritten manuscript shown here is from The tale of Li Wa: study and critical edition of a Chinese story from the ninth century, one of Dudbridge's best known works. His hallmark precision and neatness are amply demonstrated here.

Major Publications:

  • A Question of Classification in Tang Narrative: the Story of Ding Yue. Firenze: L.S. Olschki,
       1999.
  • Aborigines of south Taiwan in the 1880s. Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines:
       Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, 1999.
  • Religious experience and lay society in T'ang China: a reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi.
       Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • The goddess Hua-yueh San-niang and the Cantonese ballad Ch'en-hsiang T'ai-tzu. Taipei:
       Han hsueh yen chiu chung hsin, [Hanxue yanjiu zhongxin] 1990.
  • The tale of Li Wa: study and critical edition of a Chinese story from the ninth century.
       London: Ithaca Press, 1983.
  • The legend of Miao-shan. London: Ithaca Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental
       Studies, Oxford University, 1978.

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