James Legge

James Legge

male, deceased (1897)
James Legge was a noted Scottish sinologist, a Scottish Congregationalist, representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong...
Arthur Waley

Arthur Waley

male, deceased (1966)
Arthur David Waley CH (August 19, 1889 - June 27, 1966) was a noted English Orientalist and Sinologist.

David Hawkes

male, 86 years old
David Hawkes (July 6, 1923-) is a British Sinologist. He studied Chinese at Oxford University between 1945 and 1947 and was a research student at...
Rudolf Ritsema

Rudolf Ritsema

male, deceased (2006)
Rudolf Ritsema (October 3, 1918 - May 8, 2006) was the director of the Fondazione Eranos (Eranos Foundation) for over thirty years and the editor...
Yang Xianyi

Yang Xianyi

male
Yang Xianyi, born at Tianjin, January 10, 1915, is a Chinese translator, known for rendering many ancient and a few modern Chinese classics into...

Thomas Cleary

male
Thomas Cleary (b. 1949) is a prolific, and somewhat reclusive, author and translator of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian and Muslim religious...

Burton Watson

male, 84 years old
Burton Watson is a translator of Chinese and Japanese literature. Watson was born in New York City, United States. He has taught at Columbia,...
William Edward Soothill

William Edward Soothill

male, deceased (1935)
William Edward Soothill (1861 - 1935) was a Professor of Chinese at Oxford University and a leading British sinologist. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire,...