David R. Knechtges | |||||||||||
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Born | Great Falls, Montana, U.S. | October 23, 1942||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Washington (BA, PhD) Harvard University (MA) | ||||||||||
Scientific career | |||||||||||
Fields | Fu, Han dynasty and Six Dynasties literature | ||||||||||
Doctoral advisor | Hellmut Wilhelm | ||||||||||
Other academic advisors | James Robert Hightower K. C. Hsiao Li Fang-Kuei Vincent Y.C. Shih | ||||||||||
Notable students | Stephen Owen | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 康達維 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 康达维 | ||||||||||
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David Richard Knechtges (/kəˈnɛktəs/; born October 23, 1942) is an American sinologist and professor emeritus of Chinese literature at the University of Washington. An expert on Han dynasty and Six dynasties period literature, Knechtges' studies of Chinese fu poetry are largely responsible for the revival of Western academic interest in the subject, a major genre which had become largely neglected until the mid-20th century.
Knechtges is best known for his ongoing translation of the early Chinese literary anthology Selections of Refined Literature (Wen xuan), which is to be its first ever full translation into English.