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Twitchett, Denis Crispin was born on September 23, 1925 in London. Came to the United States, 1980.
(This book describes how the Chinese government, between a...)
This book describes how the Chinese government, between about 620 and 850, developed an official organization designed to select, process, and edit material for inclusion in official historical works eventually to be incorporated in an official history of the dynasty. The first part gives a detailed account of the establishment of the official apparatus designed to produce a record of the T'ang dynasty, which would remain standard for more than a millennium, with some analysis of the individuals who served in these offices. The second part gives all available detail about the various works produced by this apparatus, divided among its various genres, and listing all known titles, their authorship, and their relationships to one another. The third part shows the cumulative process by which a dynastic history came into being, and the way in which we can detect various elements in the completed history.
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Twitchett, Denis Crispin was born on September 23, 1925 in London. Came to the United States, 1980.
Bachelor, Cambridge University, England, 1949. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, 1955.
Lecturer in Far Eastern History, S.O.A.S., London University 1954-1956. Lecturer in Classical Chinese, Cambridge University 1956-1960. Professor, of Chinese and Head of Department, of Far East, S.O.A.S. 1960-1968.
Professor, of Chinese, Cambridge University 1968-1980, Professorial Fellow of St. Catharine’s College 1973-1974. Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, United States of America 1973-1974, Visiting Professor 1978-1979, Gordon Wu Professor, of Chinese Studies.
(This book describes how the Chinese government, between a...)
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Author: Financial Administration Under the Tang Dynasty, 1970, Perspectives on the Tang, 1973, The Birth of Chinese Meritocracy: Bureaucrats and Examinations in Tang China, 1976, Printing and Publishing in Medieval China, 1983, The Cambridge History of China, 1986, The Writing of Official History under the Tang, 1992.
Fellow British Academy.
Married Umeko Ichikawa, February 18, 1956. Married Umeko Ichikawa (deceased 1993), children: Peter, Nicholas.