Professor David #Hawkes (霍克思, 1923–2009), much celebrated for his scholarship and creative ingenuity, was a renowned #British #Sinologist, and most well regarded for his masterful #translations of #Chinese #literature.

Hawkes’s training in Chinese started in his twenties, when he majored in Chinese at #Oxford University (1945–1947). He later became a research student at the then National #Peking University (1948–1951).

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