Edward Louis Shaughnessy (born July 29, 1952) is an American Sinologist, scholar, and educator, known for his studies of early
Chinese history, particularly the
Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty ( ; Old Chinese ( B&S): *''tiw'') was a royal dynasty of China that followed the Shang dynasty. Having lasted 789 years, the Zhou dynasty was the longest dynastic regime in Chinese history. The military control of China by ...
, and his studies of the
''Classic of Changes'' (''I Ching'' 易經).
Life and career
Edward Shaughnessy was born on July 29, 1952. He attended the
University of Notre Dame
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as an undergraduate student, graduating in 1974 with a
B.A.
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in
theology
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, after which he spent several years studying
Chinese in
Taiwan
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and
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
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in
Kyoto, Japan
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. He then went to
Stanford University for graduate study in Asian languages, earning his
Ph.D.
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in 1983 with a dissertation entitled "The Composition of the ''Zhouyi''". After receiving his Ph.D., Shaughnessy joined the faculty of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the
University of Chicago
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, where he is currently the Lorraine J. and
Herrlee G. Creel
Herrlee Glessner Creel (January 19, 1905June 1, 1994) was an American Sinologist and philosopher who specialized in Chinese philosophy and history, and was a professor of Chinese at the University of Chicago for nearly 40 years. On his retirement ...
Distinguished Service Professor of Early Chinese Studies.
Shaughnessy's wife, Elena Valussi, is an Italian scholar of East Asian history who teaches at
Loyola University Chicago. They have two children.
Selected works
* Shaughnessy, Edward L. (1983). "The Composition of the ''Zhouyi''". Ph.D. dissertation (Stanford University).
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* ———, ed. (1997). ''New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts''. Early China Monograph Series 3. Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China; Institute for East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley.
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Loewe, Michael, eds. (1999). ''
The Cambridge History of Ancient China
''The Cambridge History of China'' is a series of books published by the Cambridge University Press (CUP) covering the history of China from the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BC to 1982 AD. The series was conceived by British historian Den ...
''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* ———, ed. (2005). ''China: Empire and Civilization''. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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References
External links
Biography of Shaughnessy University of Chicago
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website.
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1952 births
Living people
American sinologists
University of Notre Dame alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Chicago faculty