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Anthony C. Yu

Chinese-American sinologist and theologian

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Chinese-American sinologist and theologian

Field	Value
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name	Anthony C. Yu
birth_name
birth_date
birth_place	Hong Kong
death_date
death_place	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
occupation	Literary theorist, sinologist, theologian
boards	Modern Language Association
spouse	Priscilla Yu
children	1
awards
alma_mater	University of Chicago (PhD)
Fuller Theological Seminary (S.T.B)
Houghton College
influences
discipline	Literature, religion, sinology
sub_discipline	Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
workplaces	University of Chicago
doctoral_students
notable_works	Translation of Journey to the West
influenced

Fuller Theological Seminary (S.T.B) Houghton College

Anthony Christopher Yu (; 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.

Biography

Yu was born in Hong Kong on October 6, 1938. His middle initial "C" was only a legal formality, though Yu later took the middle name Christopher. His father, Pak Chuen Yu, a general in the Chinese Nationalist Army, and his mother Norma Sau Chan, then went to the mainland to escape the Japanese invasion. There, starting at the age of four, Yu learned classical Chinese from his grandfather, who would tell him stories from Journey to the West and draw Chinese characters in the sand for him to learn. After the war he went with his parents to Taiwan. as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship and Mellon Foundation grant.

He died of heart failure in 2015.{{Cite news|last=Roberts|first=Sam|date=2015-05-29|title=Anthony C. Yu, Translator of the Saga of a Chinese Pilgrimage, Dies at 76 |language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/arts/anthony-c-yu-translator-of-the-saga-of-a-chinese-pilgrimage-dies-at-76.html|access-date=2020-12-21|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221055116/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/arts/anthony-c-yu-translator-of-the-saga-of-a-chinese-pilgrimage-dies-at-76.html|archive-date=2020-12-21|url-status=live}}

Works

--- coedited (with Mary Gerhart) Morphologies of Faith: Essays in Religion and Culture in Honor of Nathan A. Scott, Jr.

References

"Members of the Executive Council, 1997–present".
Allen, Susie. (May 18, 2015). "Anthony C. Yu, translator and scholar of religion and literature, 1938-2015". [[University of Chicago]].
"Anthony C. Yu". Academia Sinica.
(8 January 2018). "Altered Accents and a Global China —-In Memory of Professor Anthony C Yu". China Hands.
(December 2015). "Anthony C. Yu (余國藩), 1938-2015". Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews.

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