Anthony C. Yu

Anthony C. Yu (October 6, 1938 – May 12, 2015) was a scholar of literature and religion, eastern and western, best known for his four-volume translation of Journey to the West.

Quotes

  • At a time when officials of particular nations on earth are vying to vaunt the ability of their leadership or the merit of incomparable power even in the looming shadow of catastrophic conflict, the wisdom of the DDJ seems ever more compelling and urgent.
    • Comparative Journeys: Essays on Literature and Religion East and West (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 'Reading the Daodejing', p. 277

Rereading the Stone (1997)

Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997), ISBN 978-0691015613
  • For my students at the University of Chicago and in memoriam the Dead at Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989
  • [Cao Xueqin] has succeeded in turning the concept of world and life as dream into a subtle but powerful theory of fiction that he uses constantly to confound his reader's sense of reality.
    • Ch. III, p. 141

Quotes about Yu

  • First and foremost, I want to thank Prof. Anthony Yu, who promptly responded to my solicitation of opinions on my manuscript while he was on a lecture tour in Australia. Though by no means an acquaintance, he kindly accepted me as an “unregistered student” while he was also mentoring six dissertations at the University of Chicago as a retired professor. After a meticulous reading of the manuscript, he sent me detailed comments on each chapter, often on individual lines, sharing with me his deep erudition and vast knowledge of Chinese culture. Some of his comments were directly incorporated into this book. What moved me most is the fact that he composed his last batches of e-mail responses to my manuscript when he was seriously ill. I cannot but marvel at his humanitarian spirit and his dedication to scholarship.
    • Zuyan Zhou, Daoist Philosophy and Literati Writings in Late Imperial China (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2013), 'Acknowledgements', p. ix
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