Anthony C. Yu
Anthony C. Yu | |
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| Born | August 6, 1938 |
| Died | May 12, 2015 (aged 76) |
| Occupation(s) | Literary theorist, sinologist, theologian |
| Board member of | Modern Language Association |
| Spouse | Priscilla Yu |
| Children | 1 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (PhD) Fuller Theological Seminary (S.T.B) Houghton College |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literature, religion, sinology |
| Sub-discipline | Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Notable works | Translation of Journey to the West |
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| Traditional Chinese | 余國藩 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 余国藩 | ||||||||||||
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Anthony Christopher Yu (Chinese: 余國藩; pinyin: Yú Guófān; October 6, 1938 – May 12, 2015) was an American literary theorist, sinologist, and theologian. He was a scholar of literature and religion, both East Asian and Western; and was the Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Literature in the Chicago Divinity School; as well as a member of 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. Yu has published widely in the fields of religion and comparative literature and is perhaps best known for his four-volume translation of one of China's Four Great Classical Novels Journey to the West into English.