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Birch, Cyril

(Bolton, Lancashire 1925-) : Agassiz Professor Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Berkeley

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Index of Names : Occident / Sinology and Asian Studies : Europe : Great Britain / Sinology and Asian Studies : United States of America

Chronology Entries (21)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1944-1945 Cyril Birch leistet Militärdienst in der britischen Armee in Indien.
2 1948 Cyril Birch erhält den B.A für Modern Chinese der School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
3 1948-1960 Cyril Birch ist Lektor für Chinesisch an der School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
4 1950-1951 Cyril Birch hält sich in Hong Kong auf.
5 1954 Cyril Birch promoviert in Chinese Literature an der School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
6 1960-1965 Cyril Birch ist Ausserordentlicher Professor of East Asian Languages (Department of Oriental Languages) am Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures der University of California.
7 1961 Cyril Birch wird Mitglied der American Oriental Society.
8 1964-1966 Cyril Birch ist Chairman des Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures (Department of Oriental Languages), University of California, Berkeley.
9 1964 Cyril Birch hält sich in Japan auf.
10 1966-1990 Cyril Birch ist Professor of East Asian Languages (Department of Oriental Languages) am Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures der University of California.
11 1966-1969 Cyril Birch Associate Dean for Instruction and Academic Program, College of Ltters and Science, University of California, Berkeley.
12 1970 Cyril Birch hält sich in Taiwan auf.
13 1971-1973 Cyril Birch ist Chairman of Faculty and Chariman of Executive Committee, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Berkeley.
14 1977 Cyril Birch hält sich in China und Taiwan auf.
15 1979 Cyril Birch hält sich in Australien auf.
16 1980 Cyril Birch hält sich in China auf.
17 1982-1986 Cyril Birch ist Chairman des Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures (Department of Oriental Languages), University of California, Berkeley.
18 1983 Cyril Birch hält sich in China auf.
19 1987 Cyril Birch hält sich in China auf.
20 1990 Cyril Birch hält sich in Taiwan auf.
21 1991-1992 Cyril Birch hält sich in Hong Kong auf.

Bibliography (10)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1958 Feng, Meng-lung. Stories from a Ming collection : translations of Chinese short stories published in the seventeenth century. [Transl. by] Cyril Birch. (Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1958). (UNESCO collections of representative works. Chinese series). [Feng, Menglong. Gu jin xiao shuo]. Publication / Bir6
2 1961 Chinese myths and fantasies. Retold by Cyril Birch ; illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. (London : Oxford University Press, 1961). (Oxford myths and legends). [Neuaufl. Tales from China. Retold by Cyril Birch ; illustrated by Rosamund Fowler. (Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2000)]. Publication / Bir4
3 1965-1972 Anthology of Chinese literature. Ed. and with an introd. by Cyril Birch ; associate ed. Donald Keene. Vol. 1-2. (New York, N.Y. : Grove Press : 1965-1972). (UNESCO collections of representative works. Chinese series).
[Titles see : worldcat] : http://www.worldcat.org/title/anthology-of-chinese-literature/oclc/331103&referer=brief_results. 		Publication / Bir1
4 1974 Studies in Chinese literary genres : papers presented at a research conference held in Bermuda in jan. 1967. Ed. by Cyril Birch. (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1974). Publication / Bir2
5 1976 K'ung, Shang-jên. The peach blossom fan. Translated by Chen Shih-hsiang and Haraold Acton ; with the collaboration of Cyril Birch. (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1976). [Kong, Shangren. Tao hua shan]. Publication / Bir7
6 1980 Tang, Xianzu. The peony pavilion = Mu dan ting. Translated by Cyril Birch. (Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1980). (Chinese literature in translation). [2nd ed. Translated with a new preface by Cyril Birch ; introduction to the second edition by Catherine Swatek. (Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2002)]. Publication / Bir10
7 1987 Birch, Cyril. Baizhi bi jiao wen xue lun wen ji. Xili'er Baizhi zhu ; Wei Zhou deng yi. (Changsha : Hunan wen yi chu ban she, 1987). (Bi jiao wen xue cong shu). Publication / Bir11
8 1995 Scenes for mandarins : the elite theater of the Ming. [translated with commentaries by] Cyril Birch. (New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, 1995). (Translations from the Asian classics). Publication / Bir5
9 2005 Birch, Cyril. Chinese communist literature. (New York, N.Y. : Praeger, 1963). (Praeger publications in Russian history and world communism ; no 131). Publication / Bir9
10 2001 Meng, Chengshun. Mistress and maid : Jiaohongji. Transated by Cyril Birch. (New York, N.Y. : Columbia Univesity Press, 2001). (Translations from the Asian classics). Publication / Bir8

Secondary Literature (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1972 Zhongguo wen xue xuan. Tu Jingyi ji. (Taibei : Guan wen shu ju, 1972). [A companion Chinese text to Cyril Birch's Anthology of Chinese literature from early times to the fouteenth century].
中國文選 		Publication / Bir3