Anthony C. Yu | |
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| Born | August 6, 1938 |
| Died | May 12, 2015 (aged 76) |
| Occupation(s) | Literary theorist, sinologist, theologian |
| Board member of | Modern Language Association[1] |
| Spouse | Priscilla Yu |
| Children | 1 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (PhD) Fuller Theological Seminary (S.T.B) Houghton College |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literature, religion, sinology |
| Sub-discipline | Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Notable works | Translation of Journey to the West |
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| Traditional Chinese | 余國藩 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 余国藩 | ||||||||||||
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Anthony Christopher Yu (Chinese: 余國藩; pinyin: Yú Guófān; October 6, 1938 – May 12, 2015) was an American literary theorist, sinologist, and theologian. He was a scholar of literature and religion, both East Asian and Western; and was the Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Literature in the Chicago Divinity School; as well as a member of the Departments of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and English Language and Literature, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.[2][3] Yu has published widely in the fields of religion and comparative literature and is perhaps best known for his four-volume translation of one of China's Four Great Classical Novels Journey to the West into English.[4]