D. C. Lau

D. C. Lau
D. C. Lau
Traditional Chinese	Lưu điện tước
Simplified Chinese	Lưu điện tước
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Liú Diànjué
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Làuh Din-cheuk

D. C. Lau
D. C. Lau
Lau Din-cheuk (Lưu điện tước)
Born	March 6, 1921; Hong Kong,British Empire
Died	April 26, 2010(aged 89); Hong Kong,China
Academic background
Education	King's College; University of Hong Kong; Glasgow University
Academic work
Discipline	Sinology
Institutions	S Oriental & African Studies; London University; Chinese U of Hong Kong; TT Ng Chinese Language Research Centre

D. C. Lau(Chinese:Lưu điện tước;pinyin:Liú Diànjué;Cantonese Yale:Lau Din Cheuk;6 March 1921 – 26 April 2010) was a Chinesesinologistand author of the widely read translations ofTao Te Ching,MenciusandThe Analectsand contributed to theProper Cantonese pronunciationmovement.^[1]

D. C. Lau studied Chinese underXu Dishanat theUniversity of Hong Kong,but fled to Mainland China in 1941 just before the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. In 1946, he was offered one of the first scholarships for a British university and studied Western philosophy inGlasgow University(1946–49).^[2]In 1950, Lau would take up a post atLondon University's School of Oriental and African Studies,developing SOAS into a world-renowned centre for the study ofChinese philosophy.

He was appointed in 1965 to the newly created Readership in Chinese Philosophy and in 1970 becameProfessor of Chinese in the University of London.In 1978 he returned to Hong Kong to take up the Chair of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. On his retirement in 1989, he began to computerise the entire body of extant ancient Chinese works, with a series of sixty concordances.^[3]

Bibliography[edit]

Lau, D. C. (1963).Tao Te Ching.London: Penguin Books.ISBN 978-0140441314.
Lau, D. C. (1970).Mencius.London: Penguin Books.ISBN 978-0140449716.
Lau, D. C. (1979).The Analects.London: Penguin Books.ISBN 978-0140443486.
Lau, D. C. (2000).The Analects(New Bilingual ed.). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.ISBN 978-9622019805.
Lau, D. C. (2001).Tao Te Ching(New Bilingual ed.). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.ISBN 978-9622019928.
Lau, D. C. (2003).Mencius(New Bilingual ed.). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.ISBN 978-9622018518.

References[edit]

^Baker, Hugh (July 2010)."Professor D. C. LAU at SOAS"(PDF).Journal of Chinese Studies(51): 12–14.
^Roger T Ames(31 May 2010)."DC Lau obituary".The Guardian.Retrieved22 June2012.
^Biographical information from Penguin Classics version of The Analects (1979)

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[1] Baker, Hugh (July 2010)."Professor D. C. LAU at SOAS"(PDF).Journal of Chinese Studies(51): 12–14.

[2] Roger T Ames(31 May 2010)."DC Lau obituary".The Guardian.Retrieved22 June2012.

[3] Biographical information from Penguin Classics version of The Analects (1979)

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