Stephen H. West, Ph.D. (

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: 奚如谷,

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: Xī Rúgǔ; born January 6, 1944) is a

sinologist Sinology, or Chinese studies, is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of China primarily through Chinese philosophy, language, literature, culture and history and often refers to Western scholarship. Its origin "may be traced to the ex ...

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined ...

, and

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. West received his Ph.D. from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. He formerly taught at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

, where he held the position of Professor of Chinese, in the Department of East Asian Languages, and also served as executive director of the Inter-University Board of Chinese Language Studies. West then became professor of Chinese and head of the Chinese program at

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

, in Tempe, Arizona, where he taught classes on classical Chinese and Chinese culture.

English publications

* ''Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language''. (With Wilt L. Idema). Hackett Publishing Company, 2016. * ''Vaudeville and Narrative: Aspects of Chin Theater''. Münchener Ostasiatische Studien. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977. * ''China, 1976''. (With other authors). Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1978. * ''Chinese Theater 1100-1450: A Source Book''. (With Wilt L. Idema) Münchener Ostasiatische Studien. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982. * ''The Moon and the Zither: Wang Shifu's Story of the Western Wing''. (With Wilt L. Idema). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. * ''The Story of the Western Wing.'' (With Wilt Idema). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. (Rev. ed. of ''Moon and the Zither'').

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{{DEFAULTSORT:West, Stephen H. 1944 births Living people American sinologists Arizona State University faculty University of Michigan alumni Scholars of Chinese opera

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