Anthony C. Yu

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| birth_place = Hong Kong

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| death_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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| occupation = Literary theorist, sinologist, theologian

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| boards = Modern Language Association{{Cite web|title=Members of the Executive Council, 1997–present|url=https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Executive-Council/Members-of-the-Executive-Council-1997-present|access-date=2020-12-21|website=Modern Language Association|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221055331/https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Executive-Council/Members-of-the-Executive-Council-1997-present|archive-date=2020-12-21|url-status=live}}

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| alma_mater = University of Chicago (PhD)
Fuller Theological Seminary (S.T.B)
Houghton College

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| discipline = Literature, religion, sinology

| sub_discipline = Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

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Anthony Christopher Yu ({{zh|t = 余國藩 |p = Yú Guófān}}; 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.

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}}{{Cite web | last=Allen | first=Susie | title=Anthony C. Yu, translator and scholar of religion and literature, 1938-2015 | url=https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/05/18/anthony-c-yu-translator-and-scholar-religion-and-literature-1938-2015 | publisher=University of Chicago | date=May 18, 2015 |access-date=May 18, 2015 }} Yu has published widely in the fields of religion and comparative literature and is perhaps best known for his four-volume translation of one of China's Four Great Classical Novels Journey to the West into English.

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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. He went to the United States, where he graduated from Houghton College, then took a bachelor's degree in theology at Fuller Theological Seminary (S.T.B) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.). Among his honors and awards are elected membership in the American Council of Learned Societies and Academia Sinica,{{cite news |title=Anthony C. Yu |url=https://academicians.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?r=academician-n%2Fshow&id=49&_lang=en |access-date=30 August 2019 |publisher=Academia Sinica}} as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship and Mellon Foundation grant.{{sfnb|Allen|2015}}{{cite news |title=Altered Accents and a Global China —-In Memory of Professor Anthony C Yu |url=https://chinahandsmagazine.org/2018/01/08/altered-accents-and-a-global-china-in-memory-of-professor-anthony-c-yu/ |work=China Hands |date=8 January 2018}}{{cite journal |title=Anthony C. Yu (余國藩), 1938-2015 |journal=Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews |date=December 2015 |volume=37 |pages=1–3 |jstor=26357339}}

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

{{cite book |last = Yu |first = Anthony C.| year = 1969 |title = The Fall: The Poetic and Theological Realism of Aeschylus, Milton, and Camus |ref = none}}
{{cite book |last = Yu, Anthony C. |author-mask = 2 |year = 1973 |title = Parnassus Revisited: Modern Critical Essays on the Epic Tradition |publisher = American Library Association |location = Chicago |isbn = 0838901328 |ref = none |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/parnassusrevisit0000yuan }}
{{cite book |last = Yu, Anthony C. |author-mask = 2 |year = 1997 |title = Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber |publisher = Princeton University Press| location = Princeton, N.J. |isbn = 0691015619 |ref = none}}
{{cite book |last = Yu, Anthony C. |author-mask = 2 |year = 2005 |title = State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives |publisher = Open Court| location = Chicago, Ill. |isbn = 0812695526 |ref = none}}
--- coedited (with Mary Gerhart) Morphologies of Faith: Essays in Religion and Culture in Honor of Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
{{cite book |last = Yu, Anthony C. |author-mask = 2 |year = 2008 |title = Religion, Education and the Conflict of Culture|publisher = Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong| location = Hong Kong |isbn = 9789628216208 |ref = none}}

Anthony C. Yu

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