David L. McMullen
{{Short description|British academic and sinologist}}
David L. McMullen is a British sinologist, specialising in medieval China. He was Professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge from 1989 to 2006, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.
Career
McMullen was first introduced to Chinese during National Service with the Royal Air Force in Hong Kong at the end of the 1950s. He was part of the effort to intercept and translate Chinese military communications from the British listening station on top of Victoria Peak. He already had a place to read Classics at Cambridge, but his experiences in Hong Kong, and the knowledge of Chinese that he had acquired, caused him to switch to studying Chinese.{{cite web |last1=Buchanan |first1=Emily |title=BBC News - The school leavers sent to spy on China |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8490680.stm |website=bbc.co.uk |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 January 2025 |date=4 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912134035/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8490680.stm |archive-date=12 September 2016 }}{{cite news |last1=Forestier |first1=Katherine |title=From eavesdropping across the border to Tang dynasty lectures |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/452359/eavesdropping-across-border-tang-dynasty-lectures |access-date=22 January 2025 |work=South China Morning Post |date=17 April 2004 |language=en}}
McMullen completed his undergraduate degree at St John's College in 1962, and then studied for his Ph.D. under Edwin G. Pulleyblank. He joined the then Faculty of Oriental Studies{{efn|Since 2007, the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies}} at Cambridge in 1968, as assistant lecturer, lecturer and finally Professor of Chinese, a post that he held from 1989 to 2006.{{cite web |title=Professor David McMullen |url=https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/professor-david-mcmullen |website=www.joh.cam.ac.uk |publisher=St John's College, University of Cambridge |access-date=22 January 2025}}
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.{{cite web |title=Professor David McMullen FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/david-mcmullen-FBA/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=21 January 2025 |language=en}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Wright |editor1-first=Arthur F. |editor2-last=Twitchett |editor2-first=Denis Crispin |title=Perspectives on the T'ang |date=1973 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-608-11729-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxtawgEACAAJ |language=en |chapter=Historical and Literary Theory in the Mid-Eighth Century}}{{cite journal |last1=Schafer |first1=Edward H. |title=Perspectives on the T'ang - review |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |date=1975 |volume=95 |issue=3 |pages=472–473 |doi=10.2307/599357 |jstor=599357 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/599357 |issn=0003-0279|url-access=subscription }}
- {{cite book |title=Concordances and Indexes to Chinese Texts |date=1975 |publisher=Chinese Materials Center |location=San Francisco |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uZCAAAAIAAJ |language=en}}
- {{cite book |title=State and Scholars in T'ang China |date=27 May 1988 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-32991-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/statescholarsint0000mcmu/mode/2up |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Pulleyblank |first1=Edwin G. |author1-link=Edwin G. Pulleyblank |title=Review of State and Scholars in T'ang China |journal=Pacific Affairs |date=1989 |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=244–246 |doi=10.2307/2760587 |jstor=2760587 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2760587 |access-date=22 January 2025 |issn=0030-851X|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Ebrey |first1=Patricia |author1-link=Patricia Ebrey |title=Review of State and Scholars in T'ang China |journal=History of Education Quarterly |date=1989 |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=313–315 |doi=10.2307/368321 |jstor=368321 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/368321 |access-date=22 January 2025 |issn=0018-2680|url-access=subscription }}
- {{cite journal |title=The Death of Chou Li-chen: Imperially Ordered Suicide or Natural Causes? |journal=Asia Major |date=1989 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=23–82 |jstor=41645436 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41645436 |issn=0004-4482 |last1=McMullen |first1=David L. }}{{cite journal |last1=Köhn |first1=Livia |title=Review of "The death of Chou Li-chen: imperially ordered suicide or natural causes?" Asia Major 2 |journal=Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie |date=1991 |volume=9 |pages=63 |jstor=44160489 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44160489 |access-date=23 January 2025 |issn=0080-2484}}
- {{cite journal |title=Recollection without Tranquility: Du Fu, the Imperial Gardens and the State |journal=Asia Major |date=2001 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=189–252 |jstor=41645580 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41645580 |issn=0004-4482 |last1=McMullen |first1=D. L. |last2=McMullen |first2=David }}
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External links
- {{YouTube|t-xwsLH5-q4|From the Air Force to Cambridge - Prof. David McMullen}}
- [https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies], University of Cambridge
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Category:Academics of the University of Cambridge
Category:Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge
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Category:Fellows of the British Academy
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