Glen Dudbridge FBA (1938 – 5 February 2017) was a British Sinologist, specialising in the literature and religious culture of China, ranging between the eighth and seventeenth centuries AD, with particular attention to narrative traditions and to vernacular culture.

Career

Dudbridge grew up in Westbury-On-Trym, Bristol, and attended Bristol Grammar School. He trained in Chinese at Cambridge (1967), and at New Asia Research Institute, Hong Kong (1963). He was University Lecturer in Modern Chinese, at the University of Oxford (1965-1985), then Professor of Chinese at Cambridge (1985-1989), then

Shaw Professor of Chinese The position of Shaw Professor of Chinese is one of the permanent professorships at the University of Oxford, England. It was established in 1876 as the Professor of Chinese, and is now associated with a professorial fellowship at University Colle ...

(1989-2005). He also taught Chinese literature at Yale University, UC Berkeley, Beijing Normal University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was an Honorary Academy Member of the

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is a Chinese research institute and think tank. The institution is the premier comprehensive national academic research organization in the People's Republic of China for the study in the fields of ...

(1996). He served as president of the

European Association for Chinese Studies The European Association for Chinese Studies (; EACS) is an international scholarly association representing China scholars from Europe. It was founded in 1975 and is registered in Paris. The Association is governed by a Board and its daily activit ...

from 1998 to 2002. He was elected as a

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in 1984.

Publications

* ''The tale of Li Wa: study and critical edition of a Chinese story from the ninth century''. London, 1983. * '' The Legend of Miao-shan''. London, 1978; Chinese edition: Taipei, 1999; rev. edn.: Oxford, 1978. * ''Religious experience and lay society in T'ang China: a reading of Tai Fu's 'Kuang-i chi, 1995. * ''The Hsi-yu chi: a study of antecedents to the sixteenth-century Chinese novel'', 1970. * ''Books, tales and vernacular culture: papers on China by Glen Dudbridge'', Leiden, 2005. * ''A portrait of Five Dynasties China, from the memoirs of Wang Renyu (880-956)'', 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dudbridge, Glen 1938 births 2017 deaths Academics of the University of Oxford British sinologists Fellows of the British Academy Shaw Professors of Chinese People from Bristol