The Paper's reporter Xu Xiao
On October 18, the 9th World Forum on Sinology opened in Shanghai. Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe, a British sinologist and academician of Claire College at the University of Cambridge, Joseph W. Esherick, professor emeritus of the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego, received the 6th World Chinese Studies Contribution Award in 2021, and Ye Jiaying, director of the Institute of Chinese Classical Culture at Nankai University and an academician of the Royal Society of Canada, won the 2021 Third Overseas Chinese Sinology Contribution Award.
The three laureates are highly respected and authored, and they have long been committed to the study of Chinese history and culture, and have made great contributions to enhancing the world's understanding of China and deepening academic exchanges between China and foreign countries.
Lu weiyi said in the award that in the process of cooperating with Chinese scholars, he fully appreciated their contributions to the study of the history of Chinese civilization, and it was their contributions that greatly expanded the research on this topic. Both Eastern and Western scholars have benefited greatly from these contributions.
Zhou Xirui attributed his contribution to the study of Chinese history to the resumption of academic exchanges between China and the United States after 1979, "the open door allowed me to use China's rich archival resources, conduct field research, and most importantly, communicate with and receive their advice from my Chinese counterparts." ”
As a professor at the University of California, San Diego, Zhou has produced a distinguished group of graduate students from China and the United States who explore and debate the truths of Chinese history from different perspectives.
"The rapid changes in modern transportation, media, education, urbanization, international exchanges, and political culture have made today's China completely different from the China of history. As a result of these changes, students who grow up in today's China may not have an absolute intrinsic advantage in understanding China's past. Scholars from outside Of China, even if they come from very different traditions, may be able to contribute to the understanding of Chinese history. Zhou Xirui said.
Ye Jiaying reviewed the important moments on her academic path, saying that the reason why she was able to achieve today's results was due to the Oriental roots she possessed, and she went to the West at the right time to absorb Western theories.
"Our times are facing various changes, and traditional literary criticism also needs to seek a new expansion in order to be able to grow through the ages." In Ye Jiaying's view, the Chinese language has a long history, and we should not completely use Western literary theory, but if we combine the new Western theory with traditional Chinese literary theory, we will find that Chinese small words have a very rich and subtle role and content.
It is reported that the award was recommended and voted by 78 experts of the World Contribution to Chinese Studies Award Selection Committee. Founded in 2010, the World Contribution Award for Chinese Studies aims to promote the development of overseas Chinese studies, pay tribute to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to Chinese studies, promote the outstanding achievements of World Sinology, and promote the exchange of Chinese studies at home and abroad. Many well-known scholars such as Vogel, Jao Zongyi and Tan have won this honor.
Winner of the 6th World Contribution Award for Chinese Studies in 2021
Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe is a British sinologist and fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
Joseph W. Esherick is a professor emeritus of the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego
Winner of the 3rd Overseas Chinese Contribution Award in 2021
Ye Jiaying is the director of the Institute of Classical Chinese Culture at Nankai University and an academician of the Royal Society of Canada
Lu is the only one
Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe
British sinologist and fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge
Born on November 2, 1922, Lu was a British sinologist, historian, and writer who published dozens of monographs, papers, and other publications in the field of ancient Chinese and ancient Chinese history. Lu was born on 2 November 1922 to a prominent Anglo-Jewish family in Oxford, England. Rouu's only great-grandfather, Louis Loewe (1809–1888), was a professor of orientalism and theology from the Silesian region of the Kingdom of Prussia, who later emigrated to England and became the personal secretary of moses Montefiori, a prominent British Jewish merchant, financier, and philanthropist. Lu's only father, Herbert Loewe, was a Semitic professor who taught at Cambridge and Oxford universities; his mother, Isel Victoria Hemson, was the sister of the British official and historian Albert Hemson. His older brother, Rafael Loewe (1919-2011), like his father, studied Semitic and was Professor of Hebrew and Judaism at University College London. Lu's only wife, Carmen Black, was a Japanese language scholar. Lu studied at The Depes School in Cambridge and later at Modlin College, Oxford. After the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941, Ru was the only one assigned to study Japanese at the Bedford Japanese Secret Training School, run by Captain Oswald Tucker. He became a first student in February 1942, a five-month course followed by a series of cryptography trainings. After completing his studies, He was sent to Bletchley Park and worked in the Admiralty until the end of the war. He also studied Chinese in his spare time. In 1947, Lu lived in Beijing for six months, during which time he became interested in Old Chinese and Chinese history. After returning to China, he entered the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he received a Bachelor of Chinese with First Class Honours in 1951. In 1956 he left government offices to work as a lecturer in the history of the Far East at the University of London. In 1963, Lu received his only PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and then began teaching at the University of Cambridge until his retirement in 1990, during which time he focused on academic and research. He is a Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge.
Zhou Xirui
Joseph W. Esherick
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California, San Diego
Born in 1942, Professor Zhou received his B.S. in Liberal Arts from Fairbank at Harvard University in the United States and his Ph.D. in 1971 under the tutelage of Levinson and Weifeld at the University of California, Berkeley. He devoted his life to the study of modern Chinese social history, with a particular focus on the history of social movements, and published many critically acclaimed works on the Xinhai Revolution, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Ye family, all of which have been translated into Chinese. Among them, Chinese editions of "Reform and Revolution: The Xinhai Revolution in two lakes" and "Ye: A Chinese Family in a Century of Turmoil" were prefaced by the late Professor Zhang Kaiyuan. The book The Origins of the Boxer Rebellion won the Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Society and the Levinson Prize of the Asian Studies Association. For 30 years, Professor Zhou Xirui has devoted himself to the study of the origins of the Chinese revolution in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region. The related research book "The Sacred Land of the Unexpected: The Chinese Revolution in the Northwest" has been published in Hong Kong, and the English edition of Accidental Holy Land: the Chinese Revolution in Northwest China will be published next year. He has also written a number of books on China's indigenous elite, China's urban transformation, U.S. policy toward China during World War II, the Cultural Revolution, the transition from empire to state from a comparative perspective, and China in 1943. Professor Xirui Zhou retired in 2012 after teaching at the University of Oregon and the University of California, San Diego for 40 years, and now lives in Berkeley, California. After his retirement, he taught modern Chinese courses at Chinese universities such as Peking University Yenching Xuetang, Chinese Min University, Central China Normal University, and East China Normal University.
Ye Jiaying
Director of the Institute of Classical Chinese Culture at Nankai University, Academician of the Royal Society of Canada
Ye Jiaying, female, born in 1924, is an expert and poet in classical Chinese poetry. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature of Fu Jen University in Beijing in 1945. He was a full-time professor at National Taiwan University, and an adjunct professor at Tamkang University and Fu Jen University. In 1969, he became a tenured professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990. In 2012, he was hired by the State Council of the People's Republic of China as a librarian of the Central Research Museum of Culture and History. He is currently the director of the Institute of Classical Chinese Culture at Nankai University. Since 1966, Ye Jiaying has been invited as a visiting professor and visiting professor by Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and university of Minnesota. Since 1979, Ye Jiaying has returned to China to teach every year, and has been invited to teach classical Chinese poetry in more than 40 domestic colleges and universities such as Peking University and Nankai University, and has been teaching classical Chinese poetry for 40 years. In 2016, Ye Jiaying donated the "Jialing Fund" to the Nankai University Education Foundation, and has completed the initial donation of nearly 36 million yuan, aiming to promote Chinese poetry education around the world. Li Keqiang, Wen Jiabao, Li Lanqing, Sun Chunlan, Ma Kai, Liu Yandong and many other national leaders have received or sent letters and instructions, fully affirming their outstanding contributions to carrying forward Chinese poetry and inheriting excellent traditional culture over the years, and are known as "white-haired gentlemen and daughters of poetry". He has received honorary titles such as Honorary Doctor of Literature from Lingnan University in Hong Kong, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Alberta, Canada, Lifetime Achievement Award of Chinese Poetry Society, Lifetime Achievement Award of "2015-2016 'Impact World Chinese Award'", "Most Influential Foreign Expert in the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up", "Most Beautiful Teacher" in 2018, and "Chinese Government Friendship Award in 2019". There are dozens of chinese and English works, such as Studies in Chinese Poetry, Wang Guowei and His Literary Criticism, Lingxiao Zishu, Modern View of Chinese Lexicology, and Ye Jiaying's Collected Works.
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